Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates' peregrinations, or even President Nixon's visits to Moscow and Peking, but the trips that their children-black or white, Northern or Southern-take each day in school buses. The familiar, homely yellow conveyance of the Norman Rockwell past has come to symbolize a bitter struggle over integration. Busing is fast becoming the most explosive domestic issue...
...area's 480,000 citizens seemed ready to take to the Civil War trenches that still border parts of the city. Once the embattled capital of the Confederacy, Richmond is now the center of a school-busing war that has touched off a cross fire of bitter invective...
...Canadians are bitter about having been asked to help out the U.S. with its deficit problem. They point out that even though the U.S. runs a deficit in merchandise trade, it came out about equal in overall balance of payments with Canada during the first nine months of last year. Reason: the money that Canada sent across the border in the form of dividends to U.S. investors and interest payments to U.S. lenders more than made up for the Canadian trade surplus...
...Opposition Leader Harold Wilson, who as Prime Minister had sought Common Market membership for Britain on much the same terms that he now opposes, declared: "The vote made it clear that the Prime Minister has not a shred of authority for pursuing his European policy," and predicted "months of bitter debate" over Common Market membership. One Laborite actually tried to drag Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe to the Tory side of the aisle, and another cried, "They are a gutter party, the Liberals, the humbugs...
...miners' grievances have a bitter twist; many date their ills from the nationalization of the mines in 1946, a goal that the workers had sought for generations. At that time, the men who ran the Coal Board, aiming to keep coal competitive with oil and atomic power, began to modernize the industry-and cut the work force from 750,000 men to the present 283,000. Always the Coal Board had the last word, with the power of the government behind it. "Ever since nationalization," said a middle-aged miner in the Easington Colliery Club last week, "they...