Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sullen hatred are everywhere evident among Bengalis. Few will talk to reporters in public, but letters telling of atrocities and destroyed villages are stuck in journalists' mailboxes at Dacca's Hotel Intercontinental. In the privacy of his home one night, a senior Bengali bureaucrat declared: "This will be a bitter, protracted struggle, maybe worse than Viet Nam. But we will...
...dialogue is vapidly laconic, with plenty of unpregnant pauses, and Fonda delivers it that way. He possesses the bruised canine look of his father with its perpetual hint of being over-loyal and underloved. Gates is good at suggesting a beat-up, used-up man who has not turned bitter. The untainted honesty of Verna Bloom's performance gives it the effect of beauty. She has an authentic frontier woman's face, planed by the seasons and by loneliness At one point, she says, "I'm all aching and sore from these last six years " After only...
...altogether happy with the law as passed. The President had wanted indemnification to be paid over 30 years at 3% uncompounded interest. But Congress, narrowly controlled by the opposition, called for "no more" than 30 annual installments and "no less" than 3% interest, which leaves ample room for bitter dickering between government and the companies. The negotiations could very well send the cool relations between the U.S. and Chile to the freezing point...
...What led to the bitter confrontation was a brutal incident 15 months ago. Alleging that there had been a sniper's shot in a black neighborhood, some 25 cops broke into one house without a warrant, saying that they were looking for guns. A two-year-old girl was knocked to the floor. Her protesting father was beaten, then thrown down a flight of stairs. His three-months-pregnant wife was also knocked down and stomped. A three-month-old girl was Maced in the eyes and left with a permanent need for glasses...
...three areas of disagreement: strict v. liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere is the clash currently more bitter than in the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, whose biennial convention in Milwaukee last week boiled over into a savage debate over the future direction of the denomination...