Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...person feels that religion and faith are not essential to his thinking and may be rejected or cast aside like tasteless food or bitter medicine, how can that person be expected to have a healthy respect for the rules and regulations that keep our society orderly, free and decent...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies - a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME...
...recent months, opposition and bitter resentment have broken out in riots and strikes. Were Franco not alive, these demonstrations of discontent might have overturned the structure of government. And Franco cannot live forever...
...doctrine in the Arab world, this makes it much more difficult for the United States to give Israel the support she demands for her shipping. Those who know King Saud say American pressure on the issue might change him from an influential friend of the United States to a bitter enemy...
...other ablebodied Swede would consider quitting the Vasa Run until legs or lungs gave out. For the history of the race runs all the way back to the start of Sweden's independence. It began in greater discouragement than Gunnar or his competitors ever knew. In the bitter winter of 1520, Gustav Eriksson Vasa, then 24 and a fugitive from a Jutland prison, came to Dalecarlia with news of the "Stockholm Blood Bath," a mass beheading of Swedish noblemen with which Christian II, already King of Denmark and Norway, had celebrated his coronation as ruler of Sweden. The political...