Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. As a Parisian servant girl employed in a French provincial home, Jeanne Moreau grapples with family skeletons and smoothly finds her way through the murkier passages of a bleak, bitter satire directed by Luis Buñuel (Viridiand...
There were, of course, some silly attempts at harassment. Bitter Alabamians drove past in cars, yelping obscenities at the marchers. One day a small plane flew over, dropped leaflets threatening to cut off the jobs of Negroes in the march ("An unemployed agitator ceases to agitate"). The 141-member Alabama legislature unanimously passed a resolution claiming that there had been "evidence of much fornication" at the marchers' camps and that "young women are returning to their respective states apparently as unwed expectant mothers." Retorted John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "All these segregationists can think...
...Smuts, a veteran of the ill-fated League of Nations, was equally hopeful. After scribbling a rough draft of the U.N. Charter's preamble on a cigarette packet, he told reporters: "This time we will pull it off. We have learned our lesson now." But there were many bitter lessons ahead as the U.N. met reality...
...last week, as Dong Won Lee and Japanese Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina conferred on a draft treaty, it was clear that the long and bitter relationship was yielding to a more conciliatory mood-or, as the Japanese put it, moodo. Though Japan's Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, made it very clear that Japan and South Korea were not entering into an anti-Communist pact, both countries unquestionably had been pushed together by Red China's explosion of a nuclear device...
...asked the elegant Oriental as the overnight express to St.-Gervais in the French Alps pulled out of Paris' Gare de Lyon. Even though she should have been careful-after all, she and the stranger were alone in the compartment -Mme. Huguette Munck accepted a bonbon. It tasted bitter...