Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another anecdote: I remember as clearly as a nightmare one winter night in 1966 when, after a bitter argument about Vietnam with the two pleasant men who owned the small town store where I worked, it came to me like a flash that I could spare my voice. Surely, I realized, in a year or two these men and the men like them all over America-the men who had saved us from the Nazis-would realize that the war was wrong, wrong, wrong. And then the war would stop...
...John Stennis declared that "the margin is so thin" in Cambodia that it might be necessary to loosen the strictures of Cooper-Church to allow some U.S. personnel to act as air controllers on the ground. Was he launching a trial balloon for the Administration? The idea provoked a bitter comment from South Dakota's George McGovern: "Any Senator who talks about sending American forces into Cambodia should lead the charge himself. I'm fed up with old men sending young men out to die, particularly in stupid wars of this kind...
LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...
...left their huge elliptical conference table and retired to a basement room, locking the doors to all aides. There the heads of state threshed out the highly charged issue. They reached grudging agreement on a compromise, but then, in an atmosphere that one participant described as "unbelievably emotional and bitter," redebated it during the formal session until 4 the next morning...
...woman arrives at a party. She is thoroughly swaddled in a full-length coat, high boots, fur hat and long gloves. Still, she is shivering. She stomps her feet to shake off the snow and removes her coat. Now the other guests begin to shiver. No wonder: on this bitter midwinter night, the woman is wearing shorts...