Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairer pastures in another city. And a trade or two, for reasons we shall see, should be high on the agenda. Some say that Juan Beniquez, a left fielder currents injured, would be a good bet to barter. An abominable fielder, he's speedy and a solid punch bitter who engineers enough singles to put him at a steady ...300. His Spanish speaking origins drove one local expert to predict that he would in fact be traded, inevitably, for twelve packs of baseball cards and a print of Birth of a Nation...
...Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal" has always been the most embattled of its "self-evident truths." Philosophers and politicians consistently attacked the idea. "The cornerstone of democracy is a natural inequality, its ideal the selection of the most fit," declared Nicholas Murray Butler. The bitter debate about slavery centered on the belief that neither God nor nature had created men equal in strength or gifts...
...other choices, even within ourselves. The whole trend of American history and character has made us believe that an individual can be anything he aspires to be (can "go to heaven if he wants to"). That is a heady belief until he fails; then failure is all the more bitter because it is his own fault. The nation as a whole can do anything it aspires to, including transcend history and escape tragedy. That is a heady belief until history and tragedy catch up with us; then we meet them unprepared...
Largely because the colonial powers were capitalist, many peoples of the Third World harbor bitter resentments against capitalism and have chosen socialism for their economies. In quite a few cases, this has retarded their development. For example, Daniel P. Moynihan, former U.S. Ambassador to India, points out that in 1947, the year of its independence, socialist-leaning India produced 1.2 million tons of steel, or slightly more than Japan. In 1973, capitalist Japan poured 119 million tons of steel?or more than 17 times India...
...Lord Lucan moved out of the couple's home in Lower Belgrave Street, sued for custody of the children, and lost. Bitter, drinking heavily, plunging at the tables, cursing the injustice of the legal system that denied him his children, he became, as one friend mildly puts it, "a bit of a burden." He was also deeply in debt, overdrawing his bank accounts some...