Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never had the war of words between the Middle East's two outspoken protagonists been quite so bitter; never before had their personal animosity been so nakedly displayed. As Cairo's semiofficial daily al-Ahram put it last week: "The Middle East question has reached a peak of political and diplomatic confrontation that is no less ferocious than the October War." Nonetheless, Washington remained hopeful that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance might breech the gap a bit on his trip to the Middle East this week. Both sides, in fact, are expected to participate in another foreign ministers conference like...
Kimball is by no means the first Mormon leader to alter a major doctrine. The most famous earlier example occurred in 1890, when one of Prophet Smith's successors ended the "everlasting covenant" of polygamy after the practice had plunged the church into a bitter, and losing, battle with the U.S. Government...
...indeed strange that on the very evening of the famous Bakke decision ABC-TV aired a frightening documentary. The film, titled Youth Terror, a View from Behind the Gun, was about the millions of hopelessly lost and bitter minorities in the urban ghettos of this country...
Computer sales have long required Government approval. But the energy offensive is all new, and it brought a growl from Moscow, as well as a bitter response from American businessmen, disgusted at their new role as Ping Pong balls in East-West diplomacy. It also highlighted the longstanding sharp differences of opinion within the Administration over the wisdom of using trade to pressure or punish the Communists...
...them, that is. As managers met twice daily in corporate planning sessions with Chairman Henry Ford II at the company's "glass house" headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., President Lee Iacocca sat alone and unattended in his office, which adjoins the chairman's. He was undergoing the bitter wind-down to his firing by Henry Ford a week earlier, and his colleagues were continuing to speculate on what additional changes could be expected...