Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Price Index and complicate the Administration's tough task of slowing inflation. The Government's efforts to moderate consumer spending without bringing on a recession are showing mixed results. January housing starts fell 20% from the previous month to 1 6 million units, in part because of bitter winter weather in much of the country. On the other hand, major retailers such as J.C. Penney and Sears reported double-digit sales gains in January, and auto sales in the first ten days of February were 15% higher than a year ago. The consumer buying spree, the inflationary rises...
Within a year after his father's business failed and the family moved to Northern Italy to start anew, Einstein dropped out of school and renounced his German citizenship. To shake off the bitter memories of the Munich school, he spent a year hiking in the Apennines, visiting relatives and touring museums. He then decided to enroll in the famed Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Though he failed the entrance exam?because of deficiencies in botany and zoology, as well as in languages
...move had some bitter consequences. After the outbreak of hostilities, Einstein, a socialist and pacifist, was one of four German intellectuals who signed a manifesto condemning the war. His wife and their two sons had returned to Switzerland. Within a few years the separation led to divorce. In a characteristic gesture of generosity, Einstein had agreed to give the money from his anticipated Nobel Prize to his family. (The $30,000 prize was finally announced in 1922?for his photoelectric theory. Relativity, still not universally accepted among scientists, was only hinted at in the Nobel citation.) Shortly after the divorce...
...heavy was the crush of people that Khomeini had to be lifted from his motorcade and flown the last mile to the cemetery by helicopter. There, in Lot 17, he prayed and delivered a 30-minute funeral oration for the dead. "Is it human rights," he asked in a bitter if oblique reference to President Carter, "when we say we want to name a government and we get a cemetery full of people?" Then a boys' chorus sang: "May every drop of their blood turn to tulips and grow forever. Arise! Arise! Arise...
...world, acts have consequences, mindless pleasures lead to reflective pain. Things start badly. Dubin takes Fanny on a quick trip to Yenice, hoping to feed on her vitality and youth, and gets the callow treatment he deserves. Stung, he returns home and holes up for a long, bitter winter of dis content: "He fought winter as if it were the true enemy: if he tore into it the freeze would vanish, his ills be gone, his life, his work, fall into place." Nothing helps. Lawrence eludes the biographer, and the book grinds to a stop. Dubin's wife Kitty...