Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might have been an occasion of unambiguous joy: three American prisoners of war returning to their families after long months of imprisonment in North Viet Nam. Instead, the route home last week assumed the quality of an international morality play, an occasionally bitter and tearful business that caught the three pilots in a propaganda tug-of-war involving the North Vietnamese, the Pentagon and the American peace movement. All three sides were using the flyers as pawns in a larger drama of image and diplomacy...
Before taking his timeout, McGovern campaigned more spontaneously than Nixon and occasionally suffered the consequences. In Brooklyn, he managed a pained chuckle when Democratic County Leader Meade Esposito promised to "support the Democratic ticket to the bitter end." Addressing labor leaders in Tacoma, Wash., McGovern called the area the "economic sore thumb" of the Nixon Administration. He promised a job for everyone, "though I can't spell this out line by line." The caution was advisable, since on his last visit to Washington he had pledged 25,000 new jobs if Boeing concentrated on building a quieter aircraft engine...
...bitter struggle between the rival National and American basketball associations has triggered a series of increasingly complicated lawsuits. But none of the earlier legal hassles compares in complexity to the bizarre case of Julius Winfield Erving Jr., a gifted 6-ft. 7-in., 22-year-old forward whose clinical dissection of opposing defenses supports his self-styled title...
Such discrimination is illegal, but if even a few of the bitter stories told by the unemployed are true, it persists widely. Ronald Daniels, a 24-year-old black graduate of Michigan State, has found only temporary jobs pumping gas and working in a liquor store. He lost the latter job, he says, when the store manager gave him the flimsy excuse that "he did not think I was enjoying the job. I felt that whether or not I enjoyed it was beside the point, but I got fired." Older workers are especially discouraged. Lena Moore, a 53-year...
Police estimates of the crowd ranged from 75,000 to 100,000--by far the largest rally of McGovern's campaign. The enthusiastic reception stirred the candidate to a bitter denunciation of the Nixon Administration, which he labeled "the biggest moral affront to the standards of our country of any administration in the history of this nation...