Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wheel of a car and personally drove Begin around the city, pointing out sights. But despite the efforts, the two have had great difficulty communicating. Their misunderstanding of each other's statements on such issues as the status of Israeli troops and settlements in the Sinai has led to bitter recriminations...
During my first meeting with President Sadat in Jerusalem, a very warm personal relationship was established between us. When we had our personal talk at the King David Hotel, he volunteered the statement: "You are my friend." Later on there came a metamorphosis and there was some bitter name-calling in Egypt. As far as I am concerned, I didn't reply in kind because I don't think name-calling solves any problems. However, when I meet President Sadat under the sponsorship of President Carter, I will say to him, "Mr. President, at Jerusalem and Ismailia...
...peace of this magnificent million-acre northern Minnesota tract, known prosaically as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), has been broken by a bitter environmental dispute. Like many land-use arguments raging across the country, it pits dedicated environmentalists (many of them city dwellers), who want to save the wilderness at all costs, against country folk, who feel jobs and recreational activities must be preserved as well. For a look at what Minnesotans are calling the battle of the canoe vs. outboard, TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash toured the combat zone by car, on foot and, of course, by motorboat...
...that he came home in triumph to his village near Nairobi. Remembers Griggs: "In the crush of thousands I only managed a handshake and a few words, but I was instantly impressed. The handshake was firm and the eyes were almost blazing with determination." Griggs asked if he was bitter about his long detention in the desolate north of his country...
...social spectrum. His sympathy for the wretched of the earth was visceral. But he had undisguised patrician contempt for the middle class, those who hankered after comforts he took for granted and who felt threatened by the prospect of militant poor. Significantly, Kennedy's most bitter political enemies were men, like L.B.J., who had scrambled up from poor or straitened childhoods...