Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jock") Yablonski. Boyle won the election by a 2 to 1 margin, but Yablonski supporters have appealed the result. Less than a month after his defeat, Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered. His death has shadowed the union with charges that he was ordered killed after the bitter campaign...
Almirante himself, a green-eyed, graying Parma native of Sicilian ancestry, is an example of his own strategy. He has successfully smothered a fanatical past that included bitter-end service in Mussolini's last government and membership in the hated "Black Brigades" that hunted down Italian partisans. Now he is a well-tailored, low-keyed political leader. A spellbinding if somewhat long-winded orator, Almirante is in the midst of a whirlwind campaign in which he will make 230 speeches in 70 days, preaching the new neofascist message of propriety...
...Bitter Battle. Hussein had timed the announcement of his federation plan to influence municipal elections being held this week in ten West Bank towns. He thereby intruded into a bitter election battle between Palestinian guerrillas and Israeli occupation forces. The fedayeen, who detest Hussein and want a free Palestine, were determined to prevent, by terrorism if necessary, the elections that Israel is sponsoring as part of its program to "normalize" life on the West Bank. From Baghdad, Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat warned that "collaborators with Hussein in the new plan will be assassinated." Six frightened candidates from Nablus withdrew, including...
More accurately, Wallace turned the party inside out. The Democrat who ran closest to him was Hubert Humphrey, with a mere 18% of the vote. The supposed front runner, Edmund Muskie, did only half as well as Humphrey, finishing fourth after Scoop Jackson (13%). In a brooding, bitter election-night speech, Muskie said of Wallace: "I hate what he stands for. The man is a demagogue of the worst kind. This election result in Florida reveals to a greater extent than I had imagined some of the worst instincts of which human beings are capable...
Buffalo Bill's description of Sitting Bull's assassination is likewise filled with a bitter irony...