Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be the first time that the party has agreed on how it should be run since 1968, when liberals and minority groups charged that they had been underrepresented at the bitter convention that nominated Senator Hubert Humphrey. In the aftermath, the Democratic National Committee created a commission, initially headed by Senator George McGovern, to rewrite the guidelines for choosing delegates for the 1972 convention. The commission's sweeping reforms are now generally accepted by the party and appear in the proposed charter. In some states, party officials used to select convention delegates; now all party members can take...
...Cincinnati in 1972. He has headed the 19-county archdiocese and its 511,000 Catholics with remarkable aplomb, steering a hazardous course between the church's sometimes apoplectic right and its sometimes radical left. For example, he has left the choice of religious curriculum-often a source of bitter quarrels between liberals and conservatives-to individual parishes...
What does apply, as it does for everyone, is the way life works. Jones is a pseudonym, but he is no stereotype. He is the son of a white Italian nurse ?whom he adores?and a black postal worker whose struggle to break into the middle class prompts bitter wrangling. Jones grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At 13, he hoped to be a professional singer. Instead, he followed the lead of older ghetto kids and got into drugs; by 17 he was stealing in earnest. Now 25, Jones is a bright street hustler who stutters...
...living costs sailed skyward and corporate profits rose sharply, most of the nation's biggest and toughest unions accepted relatively moderate contracts that added little to the rapid pace of inflation. But that remarkable show of patience has now ended. The American workers' mood has turned increasingly bitter lately, and wage demands have climbed steadily higher...
...been favorable reaction to the new hands-off U.S. policy, which Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs William D. Rogers described at Quito as "healthy." But Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica, which had co-sponsored the Cuban measure with Venezuela and Colombia, was openly bitter. "We have helped the United States when they needed us," he complained, "but now that we need their help, they do nothing." After the Cuban proposal failed, some Latin American newspapers, and even diplomats, claimed that the OAS was dead. That clearly was not the case. However, as more and more...