Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STALINGRAD. By the summer of 1942, the German armies had driven deep into Russia, and in August, General Friedrich Paulus' Sixth Army closed in on Stalingrad on the Volga. The Soviets resisted fiercely. As fall and then the bitter winter set in. Paulus' men inched into Stalingrad, fighting house to house. But like Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus...
...deliveries. In Spain, state employees briefly shut down the railroads in one of the biggest walkouts since the civil war. French steelworkers struck in Lorraine for a day to protest job cuts. But peace of sorts came to the Ruhr Valley as West German steelworkers voted to end a bitter 45-day strike...
April 8, 1971. The athlete at Harvard is not sheltered from the real world. He (or she) too must face the cold, sometimes bitter realities of life. And so it was today when I discovered that the price of a Cheeseburg Special at Charlie's Kitchen was now $1.75. No undergraduate at Harvard today remembers the days when said special was 99 cents...and that included a beer. On many occasions while discussing why Harvard is reluctant to admit average athletes with varsity aspirations. Jack Reardon, athletic director and former associate admissions dean, has said. "We don't want...
...Dear countrymen," Bakhtiar concluded, "we have been through a long and bitter struggle, and I believe it is now time to end the chaos, the violence and murder, the loss of life of our countrymen. With your support, I sincerely hope to lead Iran to a genuine social democracy." One subject of that appeal was Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the exiled Shi'ite mullah who has become the spearhead of the anti-Shah revolution. At week's end. speaking from his headquarters in a suburb of Paris, Khomeini jeopardized Bakhtiar's chances by declaring that "obedience to this...
Since then, it's been season after season of outstanding achievement laced with bitter disappointment. Once again, the Islanders are playing in top form, as expected; the question is whether they can keep their act together come playoff time and avoid disasters like Lanny McDonald, whose infamous overtime flick of the wrist ended New York's best season ever with a whimper...