Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...request, the prince wrote: "Since 1968 I have in good faith spent a lot of time and effort to push things in the right way in critical areas and times and have tried to prevent wrong decisions influenced by political considerations. So I do feel a little bitter...
...Bitter Rhetoric. In both Washington and Seoul, officials said they were mystified over the reasons for the North Korean attack. It is conceivable that it was simply a local controversy: the hostility along the DMZ is strong enough for the pruning of a tree to become a casus belli (see box). Beyond that, the Korean Communists have been unusually bitter lately in their rhetorical condemnations of the U.S. presence in South Korea. Last week, for example, the North Korean embassy in Peking twice issued warnings that "a critical situation" was developing in Korea and that war could break...
...Quentin Six, a group of convicts accused of having taken part in a spectacular, bloody and unsuccessful escape attempt on Aug. 21, 1971. Three were convicted, three acquitted. The trial followed a series of violent events centering on George Jackson, a black prisoner and social revolutionary whose bitter writings about life behind bars became a popular book (Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson...
Early in the siege, the Palestinians twice raised-and twice betrayed-the white flag of surrender. They did so with bitter calculation. As the Christians drew near to accept what they thought was Palestinian capitulation, the Palestinians gunned down the would-be victors. "We did this so that there would be no temptation later in the battle to contemplate surrender," one Palestinian commando explained. "By deceiving the enemy, crying wolf, we closed the door on any possibility that our white flag would be honored...
...arrived at the U.S. State Department. It announced a unilateral British decision to chop the frequency of U.S. airline service between Chicago and Miami and London by one flight a week beginning this winter. The note was the most serious salvo to date in what promises to be a bitter, high-stakes U.S.-British commercial battle that may eventually involve every airline flying the rich North Atlantic route...