Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Topkapi, was made from this; Peter Ustinov made an excellent creep). Anyway, Simpson is the son of a British army man stationed in Cairo and an Egyptian woman. They are long dead and Simpson, who bears some rather sick grudges from his experiences at English boarding schools, is a bitter and nationless failure. He is married to a young dancer who sleeps around on him. He is old, overweight, and cowardly. He is also a petty crook, who acts as a driver for rich businessmen, meeting them at the Athens airport, showing them the sights (including a brothel with which...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY--BOSTON COLLEGE: This has been a hard-fought and bitter rivalry throughout the season, and the eighth ranked Eagles feel they have a good shot at knocking off the top-seeded Terriers. But the Terrier bite is as bad as its bark, and B.U. rarely loses ECAC playoff games...
...South liberal who had the backing of the Atlanta Establishment, the city's newspapers and the black community. Carter positioned himself as a populist to the right of Sanders. For the entire campaign, "CuffLinks Carl" was derided as a tool of the moneyed interests. It was a bitter contest to determine which was the less wealthy candidate?and by any standards, Carter was well...
...death rattle may be sounding for Prime Minister Ian Smith's white racist regime in Rhodesia. From London, Washington, Pretoria and several capitals of black Africa, the message to Salisbury last week was the same: make a peaceful settlement now for early black majority rule or face a bitter "war of liberation" by blacks that could engulf all of southern Africa...
...bitter winter wind churned up the North Atlantic waves last week, the Icelandic gunboat Thor headed for a covey of British fishing trawlers that had moved into a forbidden conservation area. Guarding the trawlers, the British frigate Yarmouth kept close cover on Thor. While both vessels were running closely abreast at a brisk 16 knots, one of them-the accounts differ-veered toward the other. Warning blasts were sounded, engines were thrown full astern. It was too late. Yarmouth's bow sliced into Thor, ripping away the starboard wing of the gunboat's bridge...