Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently attempted assassinations of President Ford have again made gun control a major political issue. This is especially true here in Massachusetts where a bitter controversy surrounds a well-organized petition drive to place a measure banning handguns on the ballot...
Woody Allen and Zero Mostel playing it straight? Director Martin Ritt (Sounder, Hud) has unsmilingly cast the two in Columbia Pictures' The Front, a drama about Hollywood blacklisting in the '50s. For Mostel it's all bitter experience, for he was interrogated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955 and scorned by movie producers for a decade. For Allen, playing a bookie who lets a blacklisted writer use his name, drama is all new, and he claims to be, as usual, nervous. "I can't guarantee the outcome," he says...
...memory of last year's humiliating 9-0 loss in Hanover was still a bitter one in the minds of returning 'Cliffe veterans. One of them, co-captain Carlene Rhodes, turned in a sparkling performance. The goalie, who in the words of teammate Diana Finch "always stands out," kept Radcliffe in the tense affair with superb netminding...
Even if the size of the tax cut is not as large as billed, Ford was in the comfortable political position of having suggested a reduction larger than any being seriously contemplated in the Congress. Ford and the Democrats have now plunged into bitter disagreement over whether Congress should-or can-impose a limitation on a budget that will not become effective for nearly a year...
...almost impossible to pick up a Spanish newspaper or switch on television last week without seeing grim photographs of dead policemen or pictures of coffins ready for burial. The images bore dramatic witness to the increasingly bitter and violent confrontation between the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco and its radical opponents. By week's end, eleven more Spaniards were dead. Thirty police officers and members of the Guardia Civil and 29 civilians have been killed since January...