Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfortunate that Cabrera fell prey to such a bitter, hysterical argument, but it is the only conclusion that is consistent with the pessimistic vision of his book. Denying any possibility of change, he denies any hope of social progress. His closing words are that "the sorrowful, unhappy and long island" will always be there, "after the last Cubans, surviving all the shipwrecks and eternally bathed by the current of the gulf: beautiful and green, imperishable, eternal...
...contrast to last September, when people were bitter and fearful about inflation and only a minority of the public found Gerald Ford an acceptable President, the latest survey reveals...
...hard-pressed F.N.L.A. forces in northern Angola, and an estimated 1,000 more, plus 2,500 Portuguese-Angolan volunteers, with UNITA troops in the south. But the romantic dream of glory that many of them had before going to Angola is not reality-at least according to the bitter tales told by British "meres" who have escaped from this singularly unglamorous war. "The whole thing is a gigantic con trick," complained a burly ex-R.A.F. sergeant named Tom Chambers, who recently returned to London from Angola. "The mercenary force is a bloody shambles...
...University of California's board of regents, was hospitalized briefly for nervous exhaustion after the kidnaping. She has since regained at least some of her old fire-and swallowed her disapproval of Patty's freewheeling pre-S.L.A. lifestyle. Still, friends describe Catherine as intensely bitter over the "persecution" of "my little girl" by prosecutors and a disapproving public...
...been troubled even before the kidnaping by some of the social injustices decried by the S.L.A. He did not complain when the S.L.A. demanded that he dig deeply into his $2 million net worth to distribute food to the poor. But Randolph, too, is said to have grown bitter since her return-bitter at the chaos and venality surrounding the food giveaway, at the Government's insistence that his daughter is more criminal than victim, and at the suspicion that many of his friends and acquaintances consider her guilty as charged...