Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study of the small but growing number of young men whose angry opposition to the Viet Nam war and bitter disillusionment with U.S. society have led to self-exile and the familiar chant, "Hell no, we won't go." Correspondent George Page gives a report on draft resisters in Canada, Sweden and the U.S. in an effort to evaluate the severe implications of their civil disobedience...
...Horatio Humphrey volunteered last week to serve his nation as chief pathfinder. Eight years ago, he was the first to announce for the Democratic presidential nomination and the first to be eliminated, long before the convention. Now he is the third, and probably last, entry in a far more bitter contest. This time, no one doubts that he has the strength to battle it out to the end next August...
...conduct of the war against the Communists in Thailand's North and North east. Permissive in private but somewhat puritanical in public, the Thais resent freewheeling, free-spending American ways with women; they even frown on G.I.s holding hands with Thai girls in public. In an increasingly bitter campaign, the state-guided press is attacking Americans for consorting with "hired wives," siring "redhaired babies" and "deceiving girls and making them become prostitutes." Reflecting the public uproar, the Thai Cabinet two weeks ago ordered that the clusters of bars, bordellos and massage parlors that have sprung up alongside U.S. military...
Readers of Pravda's reports know him well as a bitter critic of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. And soon they'll get the word from Dr. Benjamin Spock, 65, on a different subject-namely Baby and Child Care. The handbook that made the good doctor a fortune (20 million copies to date) is being published in Russian-which may bring more nyets than da, da, das once Russian mothers get a load of what he says. Spock advises light garments and laying babies on their stomachs, but Russian mothers swaddle infants tightly and set them on their...
...brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...