Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affair served to confirm all the worst suspicions about the CIA and its exaggerated image as a vast conspiracy. Reaction abroad ranged from incredulity to dismay. The London Times called the revelations "a bitter draught" for those who regard the U.S. as "sometimes clumsy, often misunderstood, but fundamentally honorable in its conduct of international affairs." West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung predicted that "the disconcerting naiveté with which President Ford enunciated his secret service philosophy" would have a "provocative" effect...
...logical move, the Arabs feel, would be an agreement for Israel to disengage from Jordan. But a bitter controversy has broken out over who has the right to negotiate for the Palestinians on Jordan's occupied West Bank. At summit meetings in Algiers and Lahore most Arab leaders jointly decided that the militant Palestine Liberation Organization was the proper authority rather than King Hussein. But Sadat and Hussein later agreed that the King is "a legitimate spokesman" for the Palestinians. A compromise, which is expected to be ratified at an Arab summit called for Oct. 26 in Rabat, would...
President Ford gave a courageous talk to the V.F.W. on amnesty. In the reaction of these bitter men, words like cowards, yellow, slinking, shirkers and traitors are used over and over. One must believe that they never heard any of the reasons why millions of us believe the war to have been wrong...
Despite such skepticism, some attempt to fund more public jobs seems certain. The ambitious proposals amount to a spoonful of sugar to make the bitter medicine of big budget cuts easier to swallow. Congressmen, reasons George Washington University's Sar Levitan, a manpower expert, would be less reluctant to make large and politically sensitive spending cuts in some areas if they could also create jobs for constituents...
Wearing flowing white ecclesiastical robes, the Rev. John Tietjen, leader of the Missouri Synod's breakaway liberal faction, delivered that bitter eulogy last week from a pulpit set up in an auditorium at the O'Hare Inn near Chicago. It was what his 1,600 listeners wanted to hear. They were members of Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (E.L.I.M.), a dissident group that has been warring openly with the conservative hierarchy of the 2.8 million-member denomination. Tietjen's lament for the church underlined the fact that the Missouri Synod's conservative leadership is now firmly...