Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CONFLICT WOULD have been simpler and less bitter if everyone in the changing society hadn't belonged, just a little, to both sides. Salem Possessed's poignant portrayal of Parris--whose attacks on moneygrubbing were in large part efforts to purge himself of a grievous and integral sin--demonstrates the ambivalence at the heart of Salem, and New England as a whole, and makes traditional, straightforward dichotomies between victims and accusers seem embarrassingly naive...
...apparently have discovered other Nixon tax errors. Insists Mills: "People can better understand a failure to pay taxes than they can understand Watergate. Overdeductions, failure to state income-this will be a report to the American people. And they can draw their own conclusions." The conclusions may be particularly bitter because the report will be released just at the time when Americans are paying their own income taxes...
...coalition, which backed Walter Sullivan in the recent mayoral election, drew Danehy's fire last month when it overruled his motion to abolish rent controls in Cambridge. Danehy, who had vied for the mayor's post against Sullivan, this week still appeared to be bitter over the election loss...
...bring. When he stepped in, he was almost universally hailed as the tough decision maker who would finally whip the nation's faltering energy policies into shape. The honeymoon could not last, and it has not; Simon now is getting a barrage of criticism, some of it astonishingly bitter...
...journalist seemed bitter or at least unimpressed by I.F. Stone's sudden emergence as the white knight of journalism. Otten allowed that Stone's distance from normal journalistic circuits preserved him from making concessions to sources or "getting tied up with sources...