Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Young Republican Club, split most of the fall over whether or not to endorse Barry Goldwater, faces another bitter controversy tonight as an intense campaign for the club's leadership ends...
...Bitter. No matter who wins the Steelworkers' presidency, the election returns had already set management to shuddering. The present steel contract runs out May 1, and negotiations have been suspended until a winner is declared between McDonald and Abel. And since his term does not expire until May 31, McDonald will remain in charge of this year's contract negotiations. Abel's forces already have won a clear majority of the union's wage policy and executive committees. A contract negotiated by McDonald could possibly be overturned by Abel's people. On the other hand...
...superb speechmaker and campaigner. Preaching that one-party domination was bad for Canada, the persuasive prairie lawyer led his party to a surprising victory in 1957, breaking 22 years of Liberal rule. Yet in six years as Prime Minister he managed to get himself into a series of unnecessarily bitter squabbles with the U.S. over nuclear defense commitments, failed to fire up Canada's economy, and proved to be an imperious, eccentric administrator whose policies seemed to shift with the wind over Ottawa...
Once again, bitter controversy has flared up around the Harvard Student Agencies. The present furor over the European Charter Flights Agency is aggravated by memories of former feuds, and a highly complicated situation has been reduced to simplistic accusations on the one hand and a puzzling silence on the other...
...College gleefully joined the fun, thinking that at last Howie could be pricked where it hurt. If approved, the measure would have forced Phillips to choose between his two chief loves--Republicans and the Council. The leaders of the HYRC who had just lost to Phillips in a bitter power struggle carefully avoided public connection with the movement, but nonetheless put their weight behind...