Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bill Fulbright," says one Republican, "can call the President a name and they are bitter enemies. Wayne Morse can call the President a worse name and they are still friends. The difference is that Wayne smiles when he says it." Not always, but Morse almost invariably balances his invective a few days later with an effusive endorsement of the President. Despite their differences on Viet Nam, the two men are in near-perfect accord on many domestic issues, particularly labor and education. "The President understands that he can't have Wayne on the war," notes one Senator...
...years with the huge holding company, which controls railroad, mutual funds, real estate and other interests worth more than $7 billion, Ireland has been a top tactician, first for the late Robert Young, more recently for Financier Allan P. Kirby, in seemingly endless court squabbles with stockholders, in bitter battles for the control of railroads (the New York Central, the Missouri Pacific) and in savage proxy fights for Alleghany itself (with the Murchison brothers of Dallas...
...generations, Englishmen have liked to down their bitter in the chatty, relaxed atmosphere of the local pub. That is where they swallow more than four-fifths of the 20 gallons per head consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol...
...long as they were yoked to the same desperation effort, the factions in Britain's Labor Party could think of little else but saving the pound. Now, along with devaluation's bitter, month-long aftertaste, a paroxysm of family infighting has broken out, presenting Prime Minister Harold Wilson with the first serious threat to his leadership in his three-year term in office. Labor's left wing is just spoiling for a squabble over proposals for sharp new spending cuts, expected next month. So defiant and independent have some of Labor's ministers grown, said...
...translator who has also written a biography of Charlemagne, has produced an exceptionally clear and precise account of that momentous confrontation. In his hands, the antagonists emerge not only as complicated personalities who fall victim to situations of their own making but also as resonant symbols of the bitter struggle between church and state-a struggle that was to significantly alter Western history...