Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does. Abeba endures the death of her stepfather, and rape by her Uncle CJ, and her mother's bitter anger when she gives up Juilliard to marry Daniel Torch. She survives the horrors of a mental hospital as Daniel battles his recurring madness. Abeba's monuments are her 15 children with African names and with African pride, to carry on after she dies from cancer. "Time. Was in Azzisa's hair, thick and soft. In Zaria's bright eyes. Queenly walk. Kwame's drumming . . . Something had been recovered from The Middle Passage. After twenty-five...
...young man in the wheelchair began speaking softly, but then his voice turned bitter. His tone and words hushed the crowd at the city hall ceremony in Manhattan marking the beginning of Viet Nam Veterans Week. "You people ran a number on us," declared Robert Muller, 33, a former Marine lieutenant who lost the use of his legs in Viet Nam combat when a bullet shattered his spine. "Your guilt, your hang-ups., your uneasiness made it socially unacceptable to mention the fact that we were Viet Nam veterans." Pounding his knee with a clenched fist, he accused most Americans...
Cooke's divestiture came at the end of three bitter years of exile from the teams he once ran with the glee of a small boy on Christmas morning. He fled to Nevada in a vain attempt to escape California's community property laws during an acrimonious divorce and, suffering from a heart ailment, lost touch with his clubs. In his heyday, Cooke made the trades (Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), picked the draft choices, coached the coaches and chastised waiters in the Forum Club restaurant for allowing a guest's water glass to remain empty...
Since the election, Muzorewa has been involved in some bitter internecine quarreling with his black colleagues. Last week, however, the bishop made a shrewd appeal for national unity: he let it be known that he had selected Josiah Gumede as the country's first black President and ceremonial head of state. Gumede, a civil servant in London during the days of the Central African Federation (1953-63), resigned from his government post after Prime Minister Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia in 1965; a grateful British government promptly awarded Gumede an M.B.E. Bishop Muzorewa...
...Buchwald, humorist, at Georgetown University: "I know many of you are bitter at our generation for using all of the oil reserves. But I would like to remind you of one thing. It was our oil and our gas, and we could do anything we wanted with it. Your generation has to find its own oil and gas reserves...