Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RAPTURE. Patricia Gozzi, 15, gives a blazing performance as an emotionally starved child living in a lonely farmhouse on the Brittany coast with her bitter recluse of a father (Melvyn Douglas) and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. A bitter novel about a group of Russian intellectuals languishing in an insane asylum because they dared to oppose Soviet leaders...
...Your obituary on Clarence N. Sayen, former president of the Air Line Pilots Association [Aug. 27], properly recognizes his many contributions to air safety. But you say that he "called senseless strikes against the airlines in a bitter struggle for control of the smaller Flight Engineers Union." A review of the record will show that while the Air Line Pilots Association advocated that all aircraft flight-deck crew members be pilot-qualified, Mr. Sayen called no strikes to enforce this view. However, the Flight Engineers Union called several and was responsible for the resulting air-transportation shutdowns...
...against the Turkish rulers of Palestine. It was an unlikely group: an agronomist, a poet, a mule trader, a part-time fiddler, two frightened young women and a handful of farmers, none of whom had ever spied before. As this unusual and essentially accurate novel shows, it was a bitter and frustrating adventure-for those who lived through...
...British at Salonika in 1915, the Macedonian theater was treated as an unwanted stepchild of the Allied high command and the dumping ground for cashiered generals. As Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, saw it, the Macedonian expedition "had no military justification." Rent by bitter rivalries among the national contingents, the Salonika army for months did little except dig trenches, winning Georges Clemenceau's scorn as "the gardeners of Salonika." Commander in Chief Maurice Sarrail of France was a political general who spent far more time intriguing to unseat Greece's King Constantine...