Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opting for mediocrity and playing politics at the same time became obvious when the White House first floated the name of U.S. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Nixon would be hard-pressed to find a candidate less qualified than Byrd or one more certain to touch off bitter controversy around the country-if not in the Senate, where Byrd replaced Teddy Kennedy as Democratic whip this year...
...their American counterparts argued that the practice of giving a convict a fixed sentence--one in which the time to be served is immutable by any action by the convict--provided to incentive for the inmate to reform. With nothing to gain by reforming, the prisoner usually became bitter and dangerously hostile to prison officials and the society they represented. The con served hard time, and often after his release sought revenge on society for his incarceration. The penal reformers also pointed out that the convict's bitterness was compounded by the corrupt manner in which inmates with pull...
This whole structure reflects the often-voiced and bitter reminiscences of Richard Nixon, a veteran of World War II Office of Price Administration, which deployed a bureaucratic army of price inspectors across the country. In contrast to the OPA, the number of employees of the new mechanism will be fairly small...
...Nixon have never discussed the possibility of his taking the No. 2 spot on the ticket. They believe that Connally would accept an invitation if it were tendered, even if he had to switch to the Republican Party. He might have the support of Johnson, who is bitter about the strong antiwar positions of almost all the potential Democratic candidates. Johnson is known to believe that Connally will run with Nixon. The former President could give tacit approval to a Nixon-Connally ticket by sitting out the election and letting Texas' 26 electoral votes fall to the Republicans...
...bitter either about his relative lack of recognition. Partly, he believes, the trouble is that the Midwestern novelist, unlike the Southern or the urban novelist, cannot count on any factional audience. "Today," he adds, "except for those writers who have a wide response, there is no longer a predictable public for the novel. The old audience is fragmented. Even though much of the current writing is brilliant, it lacks a coherent response...