Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blazing sun. Along the tapa-cloth welcome mat, 50 bare-chested chiefs and their wives took part in the Pago à Go-Go, draping the President with ulas-Samoan leis-made of shells. In an even more honorific ritual, the Johnsons were offered coconut shells filled with a bitter concoction made from pulverized roots and known as kava. Lyndon barely touched the cup to his lips; but Lady Bird, offered the cup by a chief with a hibiscus tucked behind his ear, gamely gulped about a teaspoonful (she allowed later that "it had a medicinal taste...
...Many. Thus ended a long, sometimes bitter tug-of-war that began 31 months ago, when Castello Branco declared war on corruption, graft and "anti-revolutionaries." Too often for congressional comfort, that label came to include legislators themselves, who found their mandates canceled. Not until last year did Congress finally stand up to the President; in a rare show of unity, it refused to vote Castello Branco sweeping new powers-including the right to close down Congress. So Castello Branco simply put the rules into effect by decree, and for good measure dissolved Brazil's 13 political parties...
...intends to fight the charges vigorously. Undeterred by Pike's withdrawal from active office, Louttit still intends to put his case before the House of Bishops. But other Episcopal leaders are worried about the disastrous effect of a heresy hearing on the church's image and the bitter internal conflicts it would create. They are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get Louttit to abandon his demand for a trial...
Last week, by a vote of 204 to 141, the House ressolved the bitter conflict by authorizing an 8,728-acre Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The Senate had already voted for an 11,292-acre park, thus ensuring that the dunes will remain primarily a recreation area, including eleven miles of beach front. A House-Senate conference will now mediate the differences. The new park can use all the land it can get; last summer weekenders arrived in such numbers that conservationists feared the dunes were in danger of being trampled down...
...last week in the synagogues and in the streets, bearing in their arms the scrolls of the Torah as they celebrated the end of the thanksgiving period of Sukkot.* The dancers were mostly men, but a few congregations allowed women to join in and carry the scrolls-to the bitter disapproval of the Orthodox. Women are forbidden to touch the Torah by an injunction of Halakah, that vast body of law that regulates Jewish life with a sweep ranging from lofty ethical norms to small dietary injunctions. Halakah, which means variously "the law" and "the way" in Hebrew, is considered...