Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are bitter summers...
...past, too, there was bitter friction among the racial minorities in California's central valley. If the Mexican-American was not as good as the white man, Munoz explains, at least he felt better than the black. But when the Farm Workers Union launched its attack on the growers--the core of Anglo economic power in central California--and when the union won several significant victories, the Mexican-Americans began to see their fight as a part of a larger struggle of the rich against the poor. "Now I know I'm a black man, too," says Munoz...
...games were taking place at all. Rarely has the path to the Olympics been littered with so much angry controversy. From the moment Mexico City was named as the site, arguments raged over the possible effects of its 7,349-foot altitude on the athletes. Sex became a bitter issue when international sports federations started demanding a gender test of all female competitors, and some girls withdrew rather than submit to the embarrassment. A worldwide protest that threatened to close down the whole show forced the International Olympic Committee to reinstate its ban on segregated South Africa. All year long...
...ugly cloud hovering over the games-student unrest-seems to have diminished. Troops still occupy the Santo Tomas campus of the National Polytechnic Institute, and police lurk in the hills surrounding the sports sites. The students are still bitter over government suppression of their protests, a small war that has claimed some 100 lives in the past two months. Nevertheless, the students, too, have caught the Olympic spirit. Said one youth: "It may seem difficult to understand, but we're all for the Olympics. The games will go well...
Charles de Gaulle does not agree. Intent on stimulating the French economy, he overrode bitter opposition, notably from the press, and recently ordered the admission of brand-name advertising to the state-controlled television for the first time. French TV has carried some preachy institutional advertising-"Eat Peas," "Open Bank Accounts" and the like-but not brand ads. When their debut came two weeks ago, most of France's 30 million TV viewers were tuned...