Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Republicans are concerned that Ford and Reagan may be too old the next time around (although Reagan bumper stickers proclaim 69 IS NOT TOO OLD IN '80) and want to avoid another bitter primary contest. Says a former Ford associate: "A large segment of the party feels the future lies with a new personality, that the split was so bad between Reagan and Ford that a new campaign by them wouldn't do anyone any good." Heading the list of possible substitutes are three not-so-new faces...
...start to get bitter, and hope that Joe Namath hurts his knee again...
...nearby Hilton Hotel because of warnings that hostile demonstrators would be in the streets. Appearing in St. Petersburg, Fla., last week, she had to change hotels for security reasons. The victim is Singer Anita Bryant, 37; her tormentors are radical gay activists, mostly male; and their fight, a bitter one from the beginning, has taken an ugly turn...
...1830s thousands of settlers fled British rule by migrating into the interior in ox-drawn wagons. There were bitter fights between the voortrekkers and black tribes migrating from the north in search of fresh grazing land. The discovery of gold in the Transvaal in 1886 led to an invasion of white English-speaking settlers?and eventually to Afrikaner defeat in the Anglo-Boer...
...searing and fluid in a more contemporary style. It's a truly creepy song--the chorus is a very insistent and angry-sounding repetition of the words "I'm not angry any more," and the contrast is chilling. The rest of the lyrics stress again the image of the bitter observer past the point of involvement...