Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living was so lavish that suspicions of corruption were continually raised against him, and in 1965, during a government investigation of his wealth, he attempted suicide. One of the sponsors of the inquiry was Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, then head of the air force. The two men became bitter enemies, and though they often saw each other at official functions after Tri resumed military command in 1967, they never shook hands...
Said the Star: "We should have learned to suspect the casual statistic from the bitter history of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who transformed the numbers game into an impure art. The charge is justified. The plea is guilty. The pledge is to resharpen the instinct for skepticism that is the first requirement of responsible journalism...
...affronting frankness to tell her that he married her for her amusement value. Another fizzled fantasy. "But you said you wanted me to help you," she wails. Later, when years of poverty have taken the resilience out of both domestic warriors, George's tongue is at least as bitter as his wife's. After her mother's death he says: "I don't want to live with you-without...
...hard to reconcile George Ames with the warm, patient George Caldwell of The Centaur, whom Updike modeled on his father. Seeing Belle as the bitchy mother in Of the Farm is easier. When Eric's fiancée laughs in embarrassment at one of George's most bitter comments, Belle purrs, "How nice it must be to be so lovely that hatred amuses you." Still, she knows herself: "The sensation of falling in a dream always ends with the relief of waking up, but from the sensations of a mother-in-law there would be no awakening...
...major issue. They complain that PL's perspective of revolution has led SDS to focus exclusively on a set of demands-such as higher wages and improved conditions for workers-which have only limited relevance to the student movement. And, most of all, they criticize the bitter, sectarian manner in which PL treats those who do not agree with them...