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Word: bitters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days ago, undergraduate tickets went on sale at 9 a. m., standing room went on sale at 9:30, and the "sold out" sign went up at 10. The hockey team is somewhat bitter about Harvard's blase crowds, but tonight they should have little to complain about. Watson Rink finally becomes a snake...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Stickmen Take on Cornell | 3/3/1971 | See Source »

...alliance was spurred by the Opposition Congress Party, whose leaders are still bitter about the split over party leadership in November 1969. Though Indira managed to keep 228 seats, she was left as the leader of a minority government dependent on India's two Communist parties and a regional party to remain in power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Of Sacred Cows and Squint-Eyed Uncles | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Kali Reincarnate. The conflicting ideologies of the coalition members have made the alliance an uneasy one, at best. Bitter enemies sometimes found themselves unwilling partners. In south Bombay, for instance, Opposition Congress Party Boss S.K. Patil was forced to seek election in a neighboring state so that his arch foe, Samyukta Socialist George Fernandes, could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Of Sacred Cows and Squint-Eyed Uncles | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...moving much of the rural population, Viet Nam-style, into some 200 "fortified villages." Rebel activity has fallen off sharply since the army offensive began three months ago, but even a ranking Ethiopian officer admits: "All we're doing is alienating the countryside, making the population more bitter than it was before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The Shum-Shir Game | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...members of the University acquainted with the Greek regime, Harvard's willingness to entertain Sioris came as a bitter shock. The Francis Jones Professor of Greek Literature, Cedric H. Whitman, summed up the general feeling about Sioris: "He poses as an opponent of the regime, but it's impossible and ridiculous because he would not be in such a high post if he had something against them. He's a real minion of the colonels, and a hypocritical...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Freedom Sioris | 2/27/1971 | See Source »

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