Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RAPTURE. Patricia Gozzi-three years older than she was in Sundays and Cybele and just as wise-blazes her way through a dark and stormy story about a lonely child (herself), her bitter father (Melvyn Douglas), and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom), whose lives are all changed by the sudden appearance of a handsome escaped convict (Dean Stockwell...
AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the meddlesome, myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador...
...Radcliffe night watchmen and college administrators appear to be headed toward a bitter labor dispute...
...ceiling and wall and finally up his legs, coming into focus with exquisite timing. Soon the audience becomes vicarious inhabitants of Britko's village. We walk down the main street behind Briko as he tips his hat to friends; we stop to hear an old fiddler play a bitter-sweet tune; we cringe when a Nazi dragoon marches...
Precisely because the vast but limited supply is indispensable, water has inevitably aroused bitter disputes; the very word "rival" was used in Roman law as a term for those who shared the water of a rivus, or irrigation channel. The U.S. Supreme Court last year had to settle a longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland...