Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopped into his black Cadillac limousine for the short six-block drive down Unity Boulevard from the U.S. embassy to Thieu's gleaming Independence Palace. The President was in, and Martin was grim. For months he had been the most diehard American supporter of Thieu. Now he had a bitter task. He was conveying a message that had originated with the Viet Cong's representatives in Paris: beginning midnight Sunday, Thieu had exactly 48 hours to resign, or Saigon would be leveled...
...rambling, hastily prepared 90-minute valediction was bitter and recriminatory. He denounced Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the U.S. by name and Congress and the public by implication. It was the loss of U.S. aid, he said, that caused crushing defeats in the field and reduced South Viet Nam to little more than a city-state in just six weeks. Specifically, he condemned Washington for failing to fulfill promises, made at the time the Paris accords were signed, to the effect that the U.S. would, in his words, "immediately and vigorously supply South Viet Nam" in the event...
...last, the sometimes bitter discussions among deans and students are reaching the point where some very serious decisions about what changes to institute will undoubtedly be made before next fall...
...Harlem, and in Simple's tales he highlights his dreamy view of Harlem, a city-within-a-city where black culture reigns and black people share their trouble with laughter. Fiercely proud of blackness, Simple mixes an innocent wonder at the strange cruelty of the segregated world with a bitter satire of white prejudice...
...within a limited sphere of issues. Almost always they sit a Governing-Board-level and therefore for removed from the arena where the action is and where the ferment for change in our society manifests itself with a sense of urgency that seldom filters up till it erupts in bitter explosions...