Word: bitters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Planning a bombing required a "political struggle" session, usually at night, in which members debated tactics. Often the sessions evolved into heated and bitter "criticism-self-criticism" marathons, a Maoist technique to solidify political beliefs and reaffirm revolutionary commitments. Grathwohl was once badgered by other cell members for 16 straight hours for not showing enough interest in becoming a leader of the cell. Another time, cell members pressured a young mother to give away her four-year-old daughter because they thought that she interfered with her work. Was the woman into maternity or was she into revolution? Recalls Grathwohl...
Although the Boston walkout was the largest teachers' strike in the nation, last week at least 36 other strikes were in progress in ten states. Probably the most bitter was in Wilmington, Del, where 253 teachers were arrested last week on charges of disorderly conduct after police broke up a picket line outside the school administration building. All told, more than 400 of Wilmington's 800 teachers have been arrested or cited for contempt of court since the strike started Sept. 2. The mass arrests resulted from the aggressive policies of politically ambitious Mayor Thomas Maloney...
Judging from past sessions, nobody expected the meeting in Vienna last week of the ministers of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to be a quiet affair. But few foresaw what by week's end had become a dramatic and bitter tug of war between the cartel's two major producing nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran. After four days of fierce wrangling, the members compromised Saturday on a hike in world oil prices of only 10%, or about $1.05 per bbl., well below the 35% or so that had been bruited about a few months...
...third and final constraint of the GSD faculty's efforts to bury its troublesome skeletons is the bitter antagonism between several GSD faculty, including Vigier and Isaacs, and Dean Kilbridge. These animosities originally erupted in the early seventies, when the professors clashed with Kilbridge over his efforts to make changes in the City and Regional Planning Deapartment. The dispute went to a subcommittee of the Corporation, which in early 1972 dismissed the complaint with prejudice...
Clearly the Corporation decision did not resolve matters. Instead, tension ran underground, further weakening the foundation of the GSD. Evidence of this is found throughout the report: "Potentially the most difficult factor to deal with is the existence to this day of bitter animosities between individuals. Some of these date back to the period under consideration; others arise from subsequent events and issues unrelated to this case ... If anything, each side has on occasion sought to undermine the other. Thus at the heart of the investigation we have a three-way rather than a two-way conflict...