Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nixon is to be sincerely congratulated on a brilliant stroke of diplomacy in arranging a trip to Communist China [July 26]. After so many years of pre tending that 800 million Chinese do not exist, play no role in world politics and are our bitter enemies, it is very heartening finally to see a courageous and imaginative President take a step toward a more realistic China policy. Perhaps the Age of Aquarius is still alive...
...First Sign. Bruce, who came out of retirement after a long, distinguished diplomatic career to accept the Paris job, was bitter about the negotiations. "I am profoundly convinced," he told Nixon in his letter of resignation, "that the policies you have sponsored in respect to the settlement of the problems [of Southeast Asia] have been sound and constructive. It is [our opponents], and they alone, who bear responsibility for the continuation of the war in Indochina...
When Tito first proposed his constitutional changes in September 1970, bitter debate erupted among the republics, and old hatreds were fanned to white heat. Unwisely, Croatia's Communist leaders allowed nationalist fervor to build up, in hopes of exerting greater pressure on Belgrade for economic concessions. The agitation quickly got out of control. LONG LIVE FREE CROATIA signs began to appear in the republic. Autos that belonged to Serbs, 800,000 of whom live in Croatia, were tipped over. In an ironic turnabout, the big Croatian exile organization in West Germany, which historically had been strongly anti-Communist...
...academic adage has it that the difference between China and Russia scholars is that China experts love China while Russia experts hate Russia. Among the first Russia scholars in the U.S. were refugees who were understandably bitter toward the U.S.S.R. The first sizable dynasty of China scholars, by contrast, included numerous sons of missionaries eager to rediscover the country where they had lived. The next generation was made up mainly of World War II China hands. But study was subdued during the McCarthy era; the thought of enduring that kind of abuse deterred some prospective researchers from entering the field...
...meaning but to whether a saltcellar on the table is out of position." Of The Go-Between, Losey ventures: "Perhaps the film is different from anything I've done in its period look, what some people may call 'romantic.' But I think there's a bitter core there for those who can taste worm...