Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressures can be marshaled in the West to remove that veto from the Security Council, to start getting the West to behave as if it believes what it says, then there would be a chance of a reasonably democratic constitution. On the other hand if there is a long, bitter, drawn-out racial civil war, with an ever-growing need for the black liberation groups to get their aid from Russia and China, the new government won't be all that interested in a Washington-type constitution...
...Administration also showed a sense of style and timing in economic policy that it had never before displayed. By keeping their mouths shut, officials managed to spring the announcement just when it would do nearly maximum damage to antidollar speculators. And the President demonstrated commendable willingness to swallow bitter medicine that he had long put off taking. But that ought to be only the start...
...been badly embarrassed by the increasingly direct role his forces have been playing in the battle against the independence fighters that Cuba helped to train. Not so long ago, Castro proclaimed that the Eritrean struggle was a ''legitimate national liberation war" that Cuba would support to the bitter...
...Bitter summer-long hassles over Brooke's financial "misstatement" in his divorce proceedings with his wife Remigia played no small role in putting the temporary halt to the Senator's political career...
...Pusey, for Powers is a tough negotiator. But toughness can become an obsession. By trying to maintain a hard-line image, Powers may have forgotten compromise can be as effective a bargaining tool as intimidation. Steiner says, "It would be a major concern to me if we had a bitter relationship with our employees...