Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voter turnout was termed "moderate" yesterday by Cambridge Election Commission officials as one of the city's duller biennial campaigns and the winter's first bitter cold combined to dampen interest in the election...
Buttoned into an armored personnel carrier (APC), we clanked off toward the south. Passing a bombed-out Egyptian coast-guard camp, we saw Egyptian dead sprawled in shallow trenches. As we drove along the Great Bitter Lake, we could see smoke rising from Suez far to the south. Finally, we were dropped off in a forward command post, where I was given a lift in the APC of a colorful brigadier general. Let's call him "Tallo" (it is a violation of Israeli censorship to publish the names of brigade commanders). Moshe, the APC machine gunner, had cautioned...
...moved rapidly south and west toward the southern end of the Bitter Lakes. An access road leading to Cairo was strewn with wreckage caused by earlier Israeli air strikes; everywhere there were burnt-out supply and ammunition trucks and Egyptian dead. We finally reached a point 50 km. from the canal, the farthest penetration of Israeli forces into Egypt. Cairo was only 60 km. down the road. "We could be in Cairo for lunch," grunted Tallo. "There is nothing...
...campaign should prove bitter, with hawks more hawkish than ever, doves more dovish. No one expects the voters to defeat the popular Mrs. Meir, a hawk who has constantly urged a tough stance toward the Arabs. Her Labor Party and the leftist Mapam Party, its principal ally in Israel's coalition government, should retain a majority of the Knesset's 120 seats...
Members of Congress, especially conservative Republicans, are generally reluctant to push for impeachment under almost any circumstances. Besides the fact that the proceedings would involve drawn-out, bitter debates and a tremendous shock to the entire political process, the lawmakers have to protect their own self-interest. An all-out effort to find the necessary evidence of "high crimes and misdemeanors" could end up incriminating a lot more politicians than Nixon...