Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race is so close and feelings are so bitter that one high White House adviser says: "The convention will be a bloodbath." Adds another top Republican in Washington: "Whoever wins the nomination, the other side will claim it was stolen...
...Electable"?that will be the buzz word dominating the bitter Republican struggle, probably right down to the convention floor in Kansas City, Aug. 16. The argument will be whether Gerald Ford or Ronald Reagan will have a better chance of beating the formidable Jimmy Carter in November. The very fact that doubts are being cast on the electability of a sitting President with the traditional advantages of incumbency is a measure of the trouble Ford is in. It is also a measure of how far Reagan has come from a shaky start, with no credentials in foreign affairs...
...giant churning machine, which constantly reached out and pulled workers in, sometimes discarding them, but always pumping. Political emotion generated by unemployment reached higher levels in Washington, where it is only a statistical phenomenon, than out in the country, where people went back to work before they got bitter...
...Mullens had the courage to make the juxtapositions and draw the necessary conclusions: they refused to take refuge in the warmth of Westmoreland's logic. That core of patriotism that exists in the heart of even the most hardened and bitter radicals did not prevent them from acknowledging that the war served no purpose, that Michael's death was not invested with the meaning concocted for it by comfortable liars in Washington. It is a hard and bitter truth, but the Mullens both accepted it--and acted upon it to save others from Michael's fate...
...Long and Bitter. None of this means that the strike should not be taken seriously. The rubber workers, who now average $5.50 an hour, are seeking an extra $1.65 to bring them up to the present standard of auto workers. Besides that, they want an unlimited cost-of-living adjustment provision to keep wages from being eroded by inflation. And they seem determined to hold out until their strike hurts, as it eventually will. Their walkout highlights a severe problem for the whole nation: even in a basic industry, it takes a very long and bitter strike to get results...