Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was something surrealist in the swiftness of the last catastrophe?a drama made doubly bitter by the fact that most Americans had made their emotional peace with Viet Nam more than two years ago. The P.O.W.s had come home, the last American soldiers had withdrawn. The nation turned, not very happily, to other preoccupations?to Watergate and then to coping with recession and inflation. But since Viet Nam had deceived Americans so many times before, it was perhaps fitting that it should be the only war they would have to lose twice...
Georgia Tech, California's ex-Governor Ronald Reagan drew cheers when he blamed "the most irresponsible Congress in our history" for the collapse in Viet Nam. A bitter editorial in the conservative Indianapolis Star declared: "After the Americans of a braver generation destroyed the Nazis and the horrors of concentration camps became known, pictures of the atrocities were published all over Germany with the caption Wessen Schuld??'Who is to blame?' The same question applies today." Such rhetoric raised the question of whether Viet Nam might become a campaign issue in 1976. For Republicans to blame a Democratic Congress...
...seems well," Shakespeare said, and if it end so meet. The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet...All is well ended of the sprints...
Evans said that Harvard is trying to get black alumni to become more active in recruitment efforts, but that since most of Harvard's black alumni graduated between '69 and '74--which he called "a turbulent period"--many of them "have bitter feelings toward Harvard...
...that allowed for an interim neutralist government. In the Saigon region, a political compromise would avoid the chaos and dislocations of a military siege. Some pessimists believe that the North is bent on a dramatic battle for Saigon. But reducing the city to rubble would increase the likelihood of bitter-end opposition to Communist control by the many well-organized political groups within South Viet Nam?groups like the Buddhists of the militant An Quang Pagoda faction, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious sects, and powerful Catholics like Father Tranh Huu Thanh, who organized effective protests against the Thieu...