Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversial party charter--the first constitution ever written and ratified by a national party--several influential Democrats representing conservative labor and sections of the South left Kansas City very bitter. In their view the party had not listened to all the voices within its membership, but only those that came from organized caucuses of blacks, women, Latins, youth and even state governors and mayors...
Gilder just shrugs: "Maybe they'll like my new book better." They just might. Naked Nomads (Quadrangle; $7.95), published this week, continues the argument for marriage. But the bitter sniping against women's lib is gone and Gilder announces that our major social problem is men-unmarried...
...monopolizing the fertile, eligible years of two or more women. The inevitable result is a growing pool of abandoned older women and millions of young single men who cannot get married or have children-a major rupture in the social system. The sexual shuffle is creating a class of bitter losers...
Henning remained bitter about the affirmative action rules yesterday. "He [Strauss] has excluded labor from the Democratic party," he said. "His policy is suicide for the Democratic party...
Indiana Mayor Hatcher said yesterday, "There are some who leave here very bitter and very unhappy. But I think the over whelming majority of Democrats at Kansas City will feel that they have forged an honest accommodation with each other and within this party...