Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the war, Lacouture twice met Ho Chi Minh (whom he calls "a shrewd comedian") and subsequently wrote the biography of this "pictureque and peculiar personality." When Ho dies Lacouture expects a bitter power struggle among his four lieutenants...
...Freeman, one of seven children of illiterate parents, will probably attend Yale. Reginald Dawson has decided to top off his entry into a previously white school by going out for the football team (a recent letter from him says they use him very effectively as a decoy.) Two others, bitter and undirected since going to jail in 1963, say that discussing Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes has given them a clearer conception of themselves and their future goals. They are both anxious to go to college...
Beef on the Hoof. The crisis has sparked bitter criticism of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Food Minister, Chidambaram Subramaniam, but much of the problem lies in India's backward agriculture and age-old dietary habits. India's land produces only about half as much per acre as U.S. land, largely because of primitive farming implements and practices, lack of pesticides and fertilizer, soil exhaustion and uncertain water supply. Besides, India's burgeoning population-12 million new mouths per year-has simply outstripped the country's ability to produce enough food to feed...
...Eugene Austin, chairman of the Nebraska Council on Family Law, called the ruling "an act of tyranny, pure and simple." The Iowa Civil Liberties Union discussed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps on the ground that the decision violated Painter's religious freedom. Painter himself was bitter. "What they've said," he commented, "is that if parents don't conform to a middle-class Middle Western mode of living, they face loss of their children. By that standard, several million Americans would have to give up their kids. I don't drive...
...manifesto rang with a tone of bitter disappointment. "We are growing intellectually passive," it said. "Much of our time is squandered in academic exercises from which we learn little...