Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While I frankly am no particular friend of the Israelis, how else could they reasonably react under the circumstances? Their finest athletes have recently been assassinated by desperadoes, some of whom could have easily been on that Libyan plane. The Israelis have had too many bitter experiences with guerrillas, saboteurs, spies and letter-bombs...
...Arab leaders, the one most openly furious about the Khartoum massacre was Sudan's President Jaafar Numeiry. In a bitter, bristling 45-minute speech over Sudanese radio and television, Numeiry swore that the eight Black Septembrists would be tried and punished for "a crime we will not forgive." They had committed, he charged, "a criminal, rash action devoid of revolutionary spirit and bravery...
...news, the second of a series of dramas that Papp was producing for CBS, Sticks and Bones, was yanked off the network schedule three days before air time. The winner of last year's Tony Award, David Rabe's play is a bitter but brilliant satire of conventional American attitudes toward the war in Viet Nam. It was too harsh for many of CBS's affiliate stations, which screened it in a closed-circuit transmission from the network. Although pre-reviews had already appeared in the national press (TIME, March 12), a total...
...that the 1972-73 basketball season is over, a decision must be reached. For two years Harvard has had excellent chances to play in the N.C.A.A. tournament. Both years started with high hopes and ended in bitter disappointment...
...good thought back in 1961 when things were a little tougher with the Communists. He came back from his meeting in Vienna with Nikita Khrushchev, and he talked at length with his diplomatic officers, even with the press. At one of these meetings, after telling about the bitter confrontation between himself and Khrushchev, he paused and asked his audience, "If we put this out, will it jeopardize future relations with the Soviet Union? Does Khrushchev understand how democracies work?" Kennedy then answered his own question. "If he doesn't, maybe it is time he learned...