Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their terms for an all-parties conference dealing with the country's future. That conference-the basis of Anglo-American plans for a peaceful settlement-would also have to include leaders of the black nationalist Patriotic Front, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, who are Smith's bitter enemies...
Since the Core was passed only last year, the extent of influence it will have on other schools is not yet clear. If officials at other institutions revising their curricula are familiar with any other general education program, it is usually Harvard's. But sometimes they tend to feel bitter about what they see as Harvard's undeserved limelight. Nevertheless, phone calls continue to pour into University Hall requesting information on the Core. Schools as unlike Harvard as the University of Tampa and the University of Puget Sound are considering core curriculums. As Riesman notes, "The affluent started out wearing...
...glasses: a big one for beer and two shot-size glasses that will briefly contain mao-tai, a colorless 160-proof liquor that could power China's first moon shot, and a red, rice-based wine that tastes like a blend of Campari and cough syrup. The beer, bitter and warm, is served immediately and may be immediately sipped. The mao-tai and the wine, however, are reserved for toasts, which soon ensue, copiously, capaciously and loquaciously. Most are raised - and why not? - to Friendship Between Our Peoples. One of the first words the F.F. learns...
...midst of a mound of millet I will relate instructively how the spirit became bitter...
...country drawn from the photo graphs of models in Sears, Roebuck catalogues, and the characters he conjured up were no doubt precursors of the people who dwell in his novels. But this memoir depicts them as they truly were and situ ates them in that inexhaustible literary arena, the bitter, impoverished South...