Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...influence. Hippies commonly flee from father-absent homes in which despairing mothers either overindulge their children or, as surrogate achievers, overpressure them. "The big thing," a college-freshman acidhead explains, "is that my father makes more of his work than it really is, leaving us the crumbs." Recalls a bitter Navy daughter: "I despise my father. He was never there. He was in the Navy 120 years...
...discontent still smolders, while 29 of the ousted students wage a legal battle for readmission. Their dismissal was upheld by the Louisiana State board of education last week in a bitter, clamorous hearing. As he told the board about the destruction of school property, Jones broke into tears and insisted that "we haven't lowered our academic standards -we've raised them." In fact officials of the Southern Regional Educational Board rate Grambling's faculty on a par with most Louisiana colleges, and 22% of its teachers hold Ph.D.s. The real point of the protest at Grambling...
...lines were also obviously drawn for civil war--the first in Greece since the bitter fighting of the late 1940's when the nation almost fell under Communist control...
Then Diercks was forced to make four good saves and a great one against Gordie Clarke. Harvard coach Cooney Weiland put in his third line, which had been impotent all evening, for the final minute, while his strong first line sat on the bench, chomping at the bitter...
...costly, U.S. experts reckoned, that they would need time to recover from their huge losses of both weaponry and men. Yet the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies have just kept coming on, and their persistence and unpredictability have created some of the war's most bitter fighting. Instead of withdrawing and licking their wounds, the Communists last week launched another series of attacks. At the same time, the official North Vietnamese army newspaper promised that fighting in the South, where the North still does not admit it has troops, will become "more savage" in coming months...