Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...session of acute personal embarrassment. But if the Vice President learns to deal with the issues in 1972 rather than to flay individuals, McCall will think it a fair trade." McCall's judgment was that Agnew "took it very well, with maturity and poise, the bitter and the sweet." However, Agnew gave no indication that he planned to change tactics...
...Swedish critics have tended to prefer his directing to his administrating. In Stockholm, where the government picks up all but $800,000 of the Royal Opera's annual $6,400,000 budget, Gentele never had to bother with such problems as fund raising and the kind of bitter union bargaining that last year forced the Met to cancel half its season. If the Met has its way, the fund-raising load may be lighter in the future: last week the company announced that it was actively seeking Government support for the first time in its history...
...withdraw its armor and artillery and Egypt its missiles and guns to 18 miles from the banks of the Suez Canal. Egypt would then be free to reopen the canal for shipping and return half a million refugees who fled from their imperiled homes along the canal during the bitter fighting before the ceasefire. For Egypt, the idea would mean canal revenues and restored prestige. For Israel, it could lead to a peace settlement and a new image among critics who complain that the Israelis are more interested in keeping the territories they won in 1967 than in settling...
Limited as it is, the measure aroused bitter opposition from the Christian Democratic Party, leader of Italy's ruling four-party coalition, and the church, which insists that Catholic marriages can be dissolved only by ecclesiastical courts. When news of the final vote reached Pope Paul in Sydney in the midst of his Asian tour, he expressed his "profound suffering...
...sheer drama, few periods in modern history can match the years just before-and after the death of Joseph Stalin. It was a time of Byzantine intrigues, some engineered by the old dictator, others conceived and carried out behind his back. It was a time of brutal purges and bitter battles within the Kremlin hierarchy that led to Nikita Khrushchev's startling "destalinization" speech at the 20th Party Congress in 1956. This week the former Soviet Premier, who emerged from those years as the Kremlin's new boss, provides the only first-person account of those fateful struggles...