Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longest-held captive and became a leader of the prisoners during the long ordeal. His homecoming was destined to be less joyous than he might have hoped. His wife Tangee, whom he married in 1963, got a Mexican divorce in 1970 and remarried. Meantime, his sister Delia became a bitter critic of the war. "It is very important that Everett is coming home," Delia said after learning that he was in the first group. "But so many others are still missing, and the war still goes...
...week's end Kissinger arrived in Hanoi-dramatically demonstrating how suddenly the scenes can shift in contemporary diplomacy. Here was one of the chief architects of the U.S. bombing and mining policy being given a welcome in the capital of what had so recently been a bitter enemy. Kissinger was making his first visit to Hanoi at the invitation of his Paris antagonist, Le Due Tho. In three days of intensive talks, he was to meet Le Duan, the Communist Party leader, and Premier Pham Van Dong. The North Vietnamese had sought this visit with some urgency, possibly...
According to the poet, then, we are all behind bars -locked inside the jail of mortality. No matter how bitter his past, the prisoner must find a way to leave the personal desert for the world of common humanity. But how can one enter that world when there are no doors? How can one "praise" what one cannot understand...
...Ford enters the deanship for the second time, he will find a Faculty closer to unity than it has been since the issues surrounding the Vietnam war and student protest began to tear it apart. Although minority segments continue to challenge the Faculty's positions, few still hold the bitter hatreds which threatened to permanently divide this community...
...Brady preached that slavery was "the greatest benefit one man ever conferred upon another," urged the abolition of public schools and called for a separate American state for blacks. He became the prophet, and his 1954 book, Black Monday, became the bible of the white Citizens Councils that waged bitter political warfare against the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation ruling...