Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place for people to live and, hopefully, it is a place where they can live the good life." Then, hefting a chrome-plated shovel, she planted a Japanese cherry tree. When a few citizens wondered aloud how the cherry tree could be expected to last through a bitter Peoria winter, Mrs. Everett Dirksen, whose husband once practiced law in Peoria, uttered the final word. "If Lady Bird planted this tree,"said Mrs. Dirksen,"it will survive...
...after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty. Less than a century ago, Henry Ward Beecher thundered: "No man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault-unless...
Specifically, Shaddeg was irritated by what seemed to be an almost systematic disregard for sound political advice. He accuses Goldwater of abandoning proven political talent. He is particularly bitter about the relegation of Clift White-early genius of the campaign-to a secondary status in the Goldwater camp. He bristles over things like the "naming of four relatively unknown Arizonans as campaign directors." And the why of it all is simple, as Shaddeg sees...
Long But Not Bitter...
...debate on Vietnam was long--it ended shortly before daybreak--but not bitter. No one, not even the tiny handful of pro-Viet Cong delegates, even bothered to argue for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam...