Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your story on Peter Falk [Nov. 26] brought back memories of the days we served together in the Connecticut budget division: Peter reporting to work on a bitter winter morning with his pajama top on beneath his overcoat (he had been studying his lines until the wee hours of the morning). Peter gamely trying to develop an interest in computer systems...
...said to have been bounced from the top energy post because, after initial reluctance, he concluded that rationing was inevitable. Also, Simon retains his post as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. That means that his immediate boss remains Treasury Secretary George Shultz, a free marketeer who is a bitter opponent of rationing...
...dark three hours after the close of business every night. Texaco announced that its deliveries of home heating oil, diesel and tractor fuel to distributors this month will be 27% lower than in December last year. At that, the American shortages are mild compared with those in Europe, where bitter cold and record snowfalls are already worsening the bite. An economic study now being passed around among top officials of the Common Market calls a 1974 recession certain. Output in the nine countries will drop 2% to 3% next year, the study predicts, and unemployment will double, if not triple...
...convicted when I was born. If I was bitter, I wouldn't be talking," Champen said...
...Communist bloc would be achieved. The treaty with Czechoslovakia is particularly significant because it will void the last agreement made between the two countries, the Munich pact of 1938, by which Hitler annexed the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia, paving the way for eventual conquest of the entire nation. The bitter history of Czech-German relations makes it likely that this treaty will indicate to Hungary and Bulgaria that the time for detente with West Germany has arrived for them as well...