Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relief. There was no excitement over the election--the real outcome was decided on June 26, when Beame assured his victory by defeating Herman Badilio, a Puerto Rican congressman from the Bronx in the Democratic Party primary runoff. The conflict between a Puerto Rican and a Jew was a bitter one, stirring up charges or racism coming from both camps. By November, most New Yorkers seemed glad that their choice had been made over the summer, when not too many people were watching, and when many voters were away on vacation, avoiding a more intense racial confrontation like the Detroit...
...looks now like the new mayor's first few months in office will be placid. Two potentially bitter strikes, involving firemen and hospital workers, have been settled, and Beame will not inherit the bitterness left over from the conflict, which will trail Lindsay out of the office. The schools seem to be in better shape than they have been in a number of years, and local politicians have already convinced the public that the state is the cause of an imminent increase in subway fares. The subway crisis provides Beame with a popular position on a vital issue which...
...bitter side effects of Watergate has been to reinforce people's distrust of all politicians. That distrust was hardly dampened last week when charges of corruption were raised against-of all people-one of the investigators. Edward J. Gurney, Republican member of the Ervin committee, acknowledged in a terse statement that the Justice Department was looking into allegations that he had received more than $300,000 in unreported contributions in 1971 and 1972, mostly from builders seeking influence with the Federal Housing Administration...
Just north of Great Bitter Lake, a U.N. station wagon drove up to a military police checkpoint. Vast clouds of dust, churned up by tank trailers, had all but obscured the "U.N." that had been painted on the once white vehicle. An Irish officer in a powder-blue beret shook his head. "How can we fix the lines as they were on Oct. 22 [the day of the first Security Council truce]? None of us were here then. We don't know where the parties were, and you can't believe either side. Our business...
...Suez itself. The Israelis hold three quarters of the port city. The residential quarters remain in Egyptian hands, but the port, the oil refineries and the suburbs are occupied by Israeli troops. On all the main boulevards leading from Ismailia down into the port city, there was evidence of bitter fighting. Whole blocks of apartment buildings have been destroyed. Many of them still contained bodies. Part way down the main street, now nicknamed "Peace Boulevard," two burned-out Egyptian trucks blocked the road. On one side were Israeli troops, some of them carrying captured Russian-made Kalashnikov rifles. Twenty yards...