Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Teng Hsiaop'ing and his travels across the U.S. (see NATION and PRESS) proved especially dramatic and exciting. "It was a high point for any reporter who has covered China in the past," says Bernstein. "There was an unreal quality in seeing that leader of a once bitter enemy receive a 19-gun salute on the White House lawn and be given a standing ovation by business and political leaders in Atlanta...
...this sudden flowering of Sino-American friendship after 30 years of hostility-including three years of bitter warfare in Korea-there lie serious dangers of increased instability in the East-West balance of power. Teng was amply provocative in his warnings that "the danger of war comes from the Soviet Union," and Carter, perhaps unwisely, joined him in a new denunciation of "hegemony," which the Chinese define as Soviet expansionism...
Since the 1968 CELAM session at Medellin, Colombia, where ringing calls for political and economic justice were issued, the continent has been roiled by bitter church-state conflicts. Angry debate raged over priestly activism, and some younger priests and missionaries responded to governmental oppression by embracing Marxist ideas under the banner of "liberation theology...
...once desired, but now fear. I like to think it has not changed me, but that, of course, is foolish--I have gained so much from my time here, from the people I have met and the lessons I have learned, occasionally from professors. I cannot be bitter. Still, I am anxious about what may happen to so many people here--the students and administrators and professors that this institution runs--who have grown so accustomed to cold hearts...
...delegation presented the deputy consul with a memorandum written by Rosenbaum on the statute. The memo said the Allies hold many unpublicized documents that have not been used in war crimes investigations. "It would be an unsufferably bitter irony if those war criminals flushed out by access to hitherto underutilized data could take refuge behind a lapsed statute of limitations," the memorandum said...