Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor fish in Viet Nam, who will be lucky to get home in one piece but is still fighting until the bitter end. R. J. URLAUB Phoenix...
...decision on a new chief for the Organization of American States will probably be made in an atmosphere of sweet compromise next January. But the bitter battles over Ritter have been a testing ground for the small member-states of the Western Hemisphere. They may have welded themselves into a bloc which could achieve veto power over OAS policy, especially if more Carribean states join. Jamaica reportedly is moving to join the OAS. It will add one more to this new force in hemisphere politics...
...Lyndon Johnson first learned the art of politics-has dominated Texas for generations. But if the state lacks a genuine two-party system, it does have a highly active two-party party. Next year, in the vacuum that Connally will leave, liberal Democrats led by the Governor's bitter enemy, Populist-minded Senator Ralph Yarborough, have hopes of breaking the conservative hegemony in Austin. Lamented one Connally partisan: "We just don't have anybody who can keep the thing together...
When Wilson entered the Commons for the first time since devaluation, he was greeted by raucous cries of "Out! Out! Out!" and "Resign!" Wilson faced the inevitable vote of confidence in the Commons and won it with only a single Laborite breaking ranks. But the debate produced bitter invective and bile unparalleled during his three-year tenure. Tory Iain Macleod thundered to the House that "the country is sick to death of this whining and whimpering from the Prime Minister." When Wilson claimed to have answered a question that he really had not, Tory Chairman Anthony Barber exclaimed: "That confirms...
...piled six high and hastily covered with ponchos, arms and legs protruding from the grim mass. So tight was the U.S. perimeter that one soldier had to move bodies to dig himself a trench to sleep in, and another used two fallen buddies to keep himself warm during the bitter cold highlands night...