Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With more than a touch of bitter resignation, Treasury Secretary George Shultz last week thus delivered the epitaph for the Administration's five-month-old attempt to control inflation on the honor system, of which he was the chief ideologue. An hour later, in a nationwide TV speech, President Nixon did indeed move on-with the second freeze since August 1971. He imposed a halt on increases in prices-but not in paychecks-for up to 60 days...
Adrienne is not one to discriminate unfairly herself, or to make bitter distinctions between men and women. Instead, she feels that society as a whole is to blame for unhappy conditions. She speaks frequently of "the women in every man." To clarify the meaning of this idea she says, "I'm talking about a part of man that gets denied in his trying to fit a male stereotype. It's a quality that makes a person capable of being tender, of showing emotion, being able to communicate openly, to have respect for other human beings as people rather than objects...
...Bitter Broadside. In the wake of the coup, there were reports that the regime had rounded up hundreds of civilians and military men who were suspected of being royalist partisans. Last week, Papadopoulos sacked his chief of the navy after sitting down to dinner with him the night before. The air force was also grounded for fear that dissident pilots would fly their planes to Italy, in a show of support for the coup...
...sharply in recent months. Amid charges of corruption in high places, junta favoritism to business interests, accelerating inflation and the decreasing value of the drachma (which is tied to the dollar), student unrest broke into the open this spring. Last month, exiled former Premier Constantine Caramanlis, 66, issued a bitter broadside from Paris against the regime, calling for its resignation and the return of the King to oversee the restoration of democracy...
...U.S.M.C., 75, tough, battle-tested veteran of two world wars and commander of the 3rd Marine Division assault on Iwo Jima in 1945; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. Erskine was known as "the Big E" to his staff and "the Old Flamethrower" to his troops. During the bitter, 26-day battle for Iwo, his men suffered some 5,000 casualties, but launched the Pacific war's first major night attack against the Japanese, and were awarded the Presidential Citation for their heroism. In 1950 Erkskine was denied his request to take the 1st Division to Korea...