Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Soviets relay it to the North Vietnamese ambassador. Firyubin's reply: "I am not a postman." MCNAMARA AND BOMBING. Secretary of Defense McNamara quickly became disillusioned with the bombing strategy he had recommended to President Johnson and spent his last 16 months in office locked in bitter debate with military leaders in the Pentagon. He suggested contingency plans for sustained bombing of the North in March 1964: Operation Rolling Thunder, as the air strikes were code-named, began a year later. McNamara proposed two major escalations of the bombing during the following months, but the study reports...
JUST a year ago, Jordan's limestone capital of Amman was convulsed by civil strife, and King Hussein's Hashemite throne never looked shakier. In three days of bitter street fighting between Hussein's army and the Palestinian guerrillas, 250 people died. The King himself was nearly assassinated in a fedayeen ambush. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the most vigorous of the guerrilla organizations, occupied Amman's two largest hotels and held 77 foreign guests hostage. A truce was arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until...
...that should have been made available a long time ago." Added Rosenthal: "The essence of journalism is to make information available. How could we say to our readers, 'We know, but you can't know?' " Rosenthal, an acclaimed correspondent and writer who has lived through some bitter power struggles as a Times editor, had plainly never been happier. "The most satisfying headline I've ever seen in the Times," he confided, "is the one that read MITCHELL SEEKS TO HALT SERIES ON VIETNAM BUT TIMES REFUSES...
...thing is certain: the Angels are riven by bitter dissension, and the team -touted before the season as a pennant contender-is languishing in fourth place in the American League's Western Division. Many of its troubles stem from the strange behavior of Alex Johnson. In 1970 he scored 85 runs for the Angels, drove in 86 and led the league in batting with a .329 average. But even then some of his teammates suspected him of "dogging" it on occasion. Manager Lefty Phillips, who has benched Johnson on four occasions this season for not hustling, says that "last...
...bitter denunciations of white civilization as decadent and evil, LeRoi Jones cannot quite flush it from his system. It is as much a part of this 36-year-old black writer as having been the son of a Newark, N.J., postal worker, a graduate of Howard University, an East Village intellectual with a Tyrolean hat and a white wife, and a gifted poet-playwright who was cheered until white liberals decided that white guilt was a form of masochism...