Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his usual impulsiveness and the Englishman accepts with an impulsiveness which is most unusual for him. Zorba meets an aging French courtesan, an outcast in the Cretan community, and makes her feel young again and watches her die. Meanwhile the Englishman meets a young widow, as beautiful and bitter as the ancient Greek heroines. He makes love to her. A young boy who loved her in vain drowns himself. And then the Englishman watches the community stone the young woman he has loved, and kill...
When McGrath first became commissioner, the custodial staffs of the state institutions regarded the psychiatrists from the Division of Legal Medicine as downright harmful intrusions into the custodial system; the "headshrinkers" reciprocated the lack of respect with comments about the "unfeeling" guards. So bitter was the feeling that McGrath's first speech as commissioner--to a group of correctional officers 48 hours after he assumed office--expressing a hope for good relations with the Division of Legal Medicine was greeted with a hostile and icy silence by his audience...
...What bitter irony. L.B.J. finally is doing in Viet Nam exactly what a "trigger-happy warmonger" named Barry Goldwater advocated three years ago. In his heart, Lyndon knows Barry was right...
...work flirts with the Far East, draws from such predecessors as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt as well as the tendrilous enticements of Jugendstil or art nouveau. He mingles oils and tempera with gold and silver foil, beeswax, and bits of peat moss and sand to make his almost bitter, labyrinthine pastries...
...Move Slag Heaps. A prime source of uncertainty remains the steel-labor situation, but even that seemed a bit clearer last week. Because the results of the United Steelworkers' bitter presidential election battle are still being contested, AFL-CIO President George Meany-probably with a nudge from Lyndon Johnson-took the unusual step of recommending that the union postpone its May 1 strike deadline. Though Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald rejected the idea as "premature and prejudicial," many businessmen figured there would indeed be a delay-and that the extension for additional negotiations might well lessen chances...