Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Army Captain George Wanat was more bitter than most about his captivity with the Viet Cong. He told his father in Waterford, Conn., "I'd kill those bastards if I ever saw them again." He reported that he had been kept in solitary confinement for five months "in a bamboo cage full of ants and poisonous snakes." His diet, he said, was rice and pork fat, rationed at one bowl a day, plus some water...
...Ruth Dayan does not seem bitter. She insists that love between them died long before 1971, and that she sought a divorce primarily to gain her freedom. "It just wasn't worth it any more," she said in Tel Aviv last week. "It was like living in chains. If I were still his wife, there would be six guards here. Now I can drive my car to the Gaza Strip or wherever I want in freedom." One thing she does still fault Dayan on, though, is his choice of girlfriends: "It's too bad he has such...
...inadequacies of mass transit and the spread of drug addiction. Indeed, the same pressures have also come from some scientists themselves, especially the young radicals who have been staging the noisy "science for the people" demonstrations at professional gatherings. As a result, Nixon and some of his most bitter foes have suddenly become unlikely allies...
...Bitter Pill. The toughest confrontation was between Burns and the First National City Bank of New York. Citibank's chairman, Walter Wriston, and its president, William Spencer, talked with Burns in separate arm-twisting sessions. With great reluctance, they agreed not to raise the prime rate to 6¼ as they had contemplated. The bank issued a hard-edged statement that "the base rate, which previously was determined by the free market, is now being administered by the federal authorities." All this was a particularly bitter pill for Wriston, who is a member of the Cost of Living Council...
Appearing only four weeks before the sharply contested national elections, the manifesto and charter have provoked bitter controversy across France. For the first time since the present abortion law was passed in 1920, chances for reform seem good...