Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bitter Woods, Eisenhower...
...Thanks old buddy." Nathan motioned for the waitress. Scott was feeling empty. He had meant to say what he said tongue in check. But it hadn't worked. He grew bitter while Nathan talked...
Into fecund Nothingness, he thought. If you are bitter about nothing then you are into something. Stop thinking now, he told himself. We have the feeling that such thoughts as these, unless we move quickly, isolate us. He couldn't see himself across the street anymore...
...Because inflation has hindered exports and stoked domestic demand for imports, French trade deficits ran more than $200 million a month in both December and January. Devaluation of the franc would relieve the competitive imbalance by making French goods cheaper on world markets. But devaluation would also be a bitter political setback for Charles de Gaulle, who has staked his prestige on maintaining parity of the franc at 20 U.S. cents. Even so, a currency that foreigners hesitate to handle and that Frenchmen hold only because they have to is hardly the basis for a policy of grandeur...
Impounded last year by the U.S. Customs Service, I Am Curious (Yellow) has since been the subject both of bitter legal wrangles and a lot of gossip. Reports circulated that Yellow* contained some of the most detailed sex scenes ever spliced into an overground film. Grove Press, which imported Yellow from Sweden, issued a paperback copy of the script "with over 250 illustrations," many of the sort that usually come in plain brown wrappers. Now, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Yellow may be shown uncut, and moviegoers can confirm all the rumors for themselves. They...