Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, D.C., hospital room, Steven Laine also refused to be bitter. An aide to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, Laine had been walking to his office through a crowd of 125,000 gathered on the grounds by the Washington Monument for a rock festival celebrating-inappropriately, as it turned out-"Human Kindness Day." Wandering gangs of black teen-agers circulated through the crowd beating up whites at random, robbing whites and some blacks as well. One of the muggers attacked Laine, stabbing him in the right eye, which he subsequently lost...
...mestizos). The government's task was to administer the territory and prepare for elections for a constituent assembly in October and independence the following month. But last week, as Portugal's Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes flew to Luanda to try to sort out the bitter squabble, the prospect for elections seemed remote at best, and there were fears that the factionalism could degenerate into civil...
...poem, a bitter satire on the suppression in Irish newspapers of a Vatican study on dangers for missionaries in the remoter regions of the world, there are glimpses of an extremely clever man who must hide in too narrow topics: These scholars are modestly selective, Who say our nuns in Africa, Fearful of blackmen yelling 'Ya!', Tearing off starches, heavy drape, Can take an oral contraceptive, An hour or two before the rape, How will they know dread time or place. That leaves the soul still full of grace? Better to wear Dutch cap or wad And after their debauching...
Their reaction in some cases is bitter, in others disturbed but almost taking the hostility for granted. Overall, they seem to share a conviction that adopting their children was right and that they are sensitive enough to the issues involved in interracial adoption to raise a foreign child...
...firmly opposed Wilson on this issue. The powerful Trades Union Congress, the party's National Executive Committee, 145 of Labor's 318 M.P.s and almost a third of the Labor Cabinet have publicly broken ranks with their leader. The split over the EEC coincides with an increasingly bitter party battle over economic policy, and Wilson, a man who has traditionally placed party unity above all, is now presiding over what may prove to be the worst Labor crisis since World War II. Some pro-EEC Labor ministers, notably Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Consumer Affairs Minister Shirley Wilson...