Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will certainly not get all 125 planes. In fact, no specific number of jets will be mentioned in Rogers' statement. Rather, the U.S. will indicate readiness to provide a continuing supply to replace planes shot down over the Suez Canal area, where Israelis and Egyptians have been fighting bitter battles for 15 months. No planes will be replaced if they are shot down deep over Egypt. At the same time that Washington announces these limited jet sales, the U.S. will press both Israel and the Arab states to move toward compromises that might lead the way to a genuine...
...country club with its placid hilltop view, a group of El Dorado's most solid citizens reflects the town's bitter confusion about the war. As elsewhere, there is the danger of turning the conflict into a morality play. Honor, freedom, the future of America, say those who echo the President; crime and shame, say the radicals, quoted daily on TV and in the press. Those in the middle who cannot live with either version are increasingly beleaguered. Most people still talk about making a stand against Communism, though they are increasingly unsure whether Viet Nam represents...
...turned on at will. This does not mean that it is phony, that much of the anger isn't real; but it is controlled, a game, and not without its dangers. The third accent is true despair -not tough, not raging, but steadily bitter, the result not of hopelessness but of insufficient hope. It is the third accent, of course, that is the most deeply disturbing. Black militancy continues to enrage whites, but i has also had the effect of reducing white guilt feelings While guilt is useful as a social goad, the result of this reduction could...
Racial Stab1;. In the final stretch, the campaign suddenly turned bitter over an issue that would play a role in deciding the election outcome in no more than 20 of Britain's 630 electoral districts. The issue is race. It is a problem the British largely ignored until a decade of Immigration from Asia and the Caribbean has pushed the nonwhite population to a present total of 1.3 million. The man who raised the issue was Tory Enoch Powell, Harold Macmillan's Minister of Health. In 1968 Powell prophesied that rivers of blood would flow in Britain...
...months later, however, in the midst of the general student strike, the Rosovsky Report became the focal point of a bitter confrontation between the administration and AAAAS...