Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bible Lesson. To be sure, there is still a chance that the arms issue can somehow be solved by what Queen Elizabeth II has called "these personal contacts which mean so much." Even so, the issue is certain to leave a bitter aftertaste and could accentuate the centrifugal forces at work within the Commonwealth. The Africans are deeply embittered at what Zambia's bush-jacketed Kenneth Kaunda labeled a moral decision to "support apartheid with arms...
About politicians, Townsend is both bitter and occasionally shrewd. He presents well-researched episodes from the 1920s and 1930s, when air force commanders in both England and Germany struggled to strengthen their young units against the opposition of shortsighted, budget-obsessed political bosses. Even Churchill, as early as 1919 when he was Secretary of War, is described as having a "tendency to wobble when attacked." Townsend's sole hero on the ground is "Stuffy" Dowding, commander in chief of Britain's Fighter Command...
...case, that would be June 1971. Explaining that Haywood was the sole means of support for his mother and nine younger brothers and sisters, the Rockets claimed that he qualified for an A.B.A. proviso waiving the four-year rule for "hardship cases." The league, locked in a bitter recruiting war with the N.B.A. (which has no such proviso), agreed...
...prison needs far more than play. It teems with bitter men, one-third of them black. Some of the toughest are young militants transferred from Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton, where 225 blacks staged a sitdown last year to protest the prolonged solitary confinement of their leaders. Instead of using tear gas or other nonlethal weapons, Pendleton guards fired shotguns pointblank into the unarmed crowd, killing two blacks and seriously wounding 45. One official gasped: "They slaughtered them like pigs...
...this, Pusey's departure will not be without bitter feelings. For a man who defended the right of the University, any university, to exist free from outside control, he has made many enemies among academic liberals. The image of the bold young college president standing up to the forces of intolerance has been replaced, in the eyes of many, by an image of a tight-lipped, uncommunicative old man, alienated from younger faculty and students, with a mid-Victorian conception of the role of the academic community. Probably neither image is true: Pusey, after all, is only human...