Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school of social sciences is the youngest of the institute's four schools. Political Economist Carl Kaysen, director of the institute, founded the social science school in 1967. It has been the subject of bitter controversy among institute trustees and faculty members...
...obvious reason for Cinque's bitter tone may have been the almost unanimous outcry against S.L.A. tactics by other leftist political groups. Clearly angered by that reaction, he urged more organizations to "stand with the people...
...scheduled Soviet TV show about Yevtushenko was canceled and he was given an angry summons from the Writers Union. Yevtushenko refused the union's demand that he publicly denounce Solzhenitsyn. Instead, he circulated a letter of protest about the cancellation of his show, in which he expressed "bitter disagreement" with parts of Gulag. Yet he argued for disclosure of "the bloody crimes of the Stalin era documented in the terrifying pages" of Gulag. Echoing one of Solzhenitsyn's recent appeals, the poet wrote: "In our timidity, let each of us make a choice whether to consciously remain...
AFTER 21 MONTHS of bitter denunciation and unbridled hostility on both sides, the Farah Manufacturing Company has finally recognized the rights of its 9000 workers to join one of the country's oldest labor unions, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Company president Willie Farah once said that he would rather "go bankrupt than unionize." But faced with a National Labor Relations Board judge's condemnation, a growing group of angry stockholders and a determined union willing to continue the boycott indefinitely, Farah had few alternatives to choose from...
...reason why this election is unusually bitter is that the consensus has broken down completely...