Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Democrats agree that McGovern will have to write off the South, so bitter is the sentiment against him there. But nowhere are the party's regulars sanguine about the prospects for November if McGovern runs. A prominent Jewish fund-raiser predicts that "most of my friends would vote for Nixon and give their money to Nixon." Although McGovern was at pains in New York to proclaim himself a firm supporter of Israel, some Jews still mistrust him; some also feel that McGovern's political aura is too radical. San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Humphrey...
...prospects cheered Brodsky. Drinking Coca-Cola in a Vienna cafe, the sturdy, red-haired young poet grinned while cracking a pun in English: "I'm neither a refugee, nor a refu-Jew." He added: "I'm not bitter or angry about what happened to me. I see it as a test of my ability to endure...
Although HSA bungled the transportation to Europe, for those who still get there, HSA published this year a very well-written guide Europe. Behind their high quality publication, bitter disagreements existed between Ryan and Donald C. Thomas III '72, the publishing division manager who resigned in September 1971. Ryan, Thomas and a third student had vied for the HSA presidency the previous Spring in a close contest...
Stern's supporters were bitter. They knew that Handlin had gone to the top to voice his objections. They also suspected that Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and former dean of the Faculty, was less than enthusiastic about the prospect of a new man encroaching on his territory of modern German history. They realized that if Ford had wanted the appointment, he was close enough to Pusey to guarantee its approval...
...heated and at times bitter six-month labor dispute pitting waitresses against management continues to plague Cronin's Restaurant in Harvard Square...