Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress gave just $1.77 billion to the entire poverty program for the current fiscal year, and that only after a rough fight. If Johnson seriously pushes a major new job scheme in an election year when taxes and Government spending are already high on the agenda of bitter issues, he can expect a more grinding scrap on Capitol Hill than...
...national condition of confusion and contention over Viet Nam and the urban crisis. Unable to change the course of either, its mood was often one of angry frustration. The fight over the proposed tax increase and efforts to curb federal spending flavored the entire session, giving it a bitter taste-but no tax bill and only marginal savings. In the House, where dispute was hottest, the Republicans began by declaring that the old conservative coalition of the G.O.P. and Southern Democrats was dead, but the bloc won more crucial vote tests than in any of the past ten years. Nonetheless...
...four murders. On the stand, he not only admitted the killings and confessed attempts to abduct 70 other children, but also allowed that he had sought ab solution from a priest after attacking his first victim. In Germany, the trial and its ghastly revelations have stirred a bitter debate on whether the confessional should be inviolate when it is privy to admissions of crime...
...portrays no other character than Bob Hope. Jack Benny is a "character" comedian-stingy Jack. Such comics as Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches. Many of today's young monologists, in the style of the late Lenny Bruce, specialize in acutely perceived, often bitter commentary, not to say four-letter words. Hope's comedy is broader, less original in viewpoint, but it is almost always clean, just as topical, more deftly timed, and tuned more to the sensibilities of his audiences...
This year, Harvard has started its season less auspiciously. Last week's 21-12 loss to Franklin and Marshall was a bitter disappointment to the team, much less its fans. But the loss has not materially reduced the prospect that Harvard will once again beat Cornell this year, and in the lion's den to boot, when it challenges them Saturday...