Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance that makes the original look pallid by comparison. She delivers a polished rendition that gives full play to her great range, belting the song out one minute, falling back to a croon the next. A disillusioned account of the life of a music star, the song seethes with bitter irony...
Almost any United Nations gathering of the past year has seemed guaranteed to generate bitter recriminations-most often between rich and poor countries. Not this time, however. During the U.N.'s 15-day special session on Third World demands for a greater share of the globe's wealth, delegates on both sides of the issue traded cautious huzzas instead of hisses. "These are better times," declared Sudanese Foreign Minister Jamal Mohamed Ahmed. "We are talking to each other, not howling and barking at each other across fences." The U.S.'s new Ambassador to the U.N., Daniel Moynihan...
...hurt when he finds himself facing a women's hostility, when he tires to cry "Yes, but I've felt that way too--derided or ignored because somehow I could not measure up" and finds he cannot, no matter how hard he tries, cross over into the very special, bitter kind of oppression experience that has been the lot of women in this society...
Christian and longtime political foe of Karami's. Indeed, the gunman alleged to have executed the Moslem bus riders is a distant relative of the President's.* Thus forces loyal to Lebanon's two highest officials were locked in a fight that was certain to have bitter political side effects...
After the founding of that republic 26 years ago, bitter anti-Communism ran strong among the Chinese Evangelicals scattered across Asia, and the Western missionaries who work with them. Many of them seemed to think that Communist China did not exist. Yet at the conference, called "Love China '75," some delegates talked about Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai almost as if they were their old friends. Remarked one delegate: "For the first time, Chinese Christians outside the mainland are seeing the Chinese not as 800 million blue ants but as human beings...