Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops -two battalions of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and two brigades of Latin American soldiers-moved into the downtown area last week on the specific orders of Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy. In the previous two weeks, at least 15 Dominicans had been killed amid a series of bitter clashes between loyalist Dominican troops and Castroite rebels, who had refused to surrender their arms. Now the OAS would oversee the disarming...
Though the slow-moving Corsican natives have themselves to blame for not moving into the new land fast enough, they nonetheless curse the newcomers -and Paris-for their plight. "This is an island," says one bitter native, "surrounded by the sea and monopolies...
...Russian literary underground runs deep. Tertz has made his mark as a bitter, bedrock enemy of Communism, while Sinyavsky merely mocks its Stalinist aspects. To Kremlinologists from Bonn to Washington, this suggested that Sinyavsky might be one of those Russian writers who produce critical work that is acceptable for open publication, but whose best efforts are for the "drawer"-they cannot be published anywhere but in the West. Thus a foreigner reading a noted critic's articles in Literaturnaya Gazeta may get a wholly false impression of his talents. Of one bottom-drawer writer, a Soviet official recently exclaimed...
...this demands an examination of the phenomenon. Resisting war, in forms that range from high-minded idealism down to the most scurrilous draft-dodging, is a perennial U.S. custom. Many Americans, including Abraham Lincoln, were embarrassed to the point of bitter protest at their country's jumping on Mexico in 1846; rioting draft evaders set part of Manhattan afire during the Civil War. Even draft-card burning is nothing new: Critic Dwight Macdonald put the flame...
...baseball player; and Simone Signoret, the countess. Simone has lived a lot and squints all the time because she finds it too painful to look wide-eyed at the world. At the same time, she is as cuddlesome as can be. When Werner says, "Some-times you're so bitter; then you're soft and warm as a child," she groans, "I'm just a woman...