Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ohio, after a long and bitter fight, voters decided, 63% to 37%, to kill a proposal that would have banned steel-jawed leg-hold animal traps. The legislature had bottled up the measure, but antitrappers gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot. The proposal was defeated by voters in the state's rural areas. In the end, voters were swayed by the argument that the ban would cripple Ohio's $10 million-a-year fur industry (mostly muskrat...
...Women's Room rises above bitter nostalgia and feminist rhetoric. French's true-to-life characters and her persuasive narrator aid her in this. In addition, she ties the women's experiences to the nation's. Poltical caucuses, not the supermarket, become the meeting place for the women. When the Harvard women gather for coffee, they talk of Vietnam, not laundromats. Some of the characters, like Mira's friend Val, become deeply, almost obsessively involved with the peace movement. Mira becomes serious about attending the meetings only after she meets an attractive man at one.) In addition to the politicized...
Aside from this, the thing that impressed me the most was the fact that not once while we talked did Cleary mention that the media had ever wronged him personally. He is not bitter, rather concerned that his players not be subjected to the kind of treatment reserved for the likes of Derek Sanderson and Dave Schultz...
...within the next 24 months, but could do so earlier if Labor takes a strong lead?as it might if Healey's minibudget proves popular. The London Times editorialized that the budget seemed designed "to keep the political initiative rather than for any purpose of managing the economy." Tories, bitter because Labor had stolen their policy of aid to small businesses, described Healey's package as "a budget of repentance ... an electioneering budget...
There is something basically unpatriotic about F. Scott Fitzgerald's contention that American lives have no second acts. The tainted blessing of early success ("the victor belongs to the spoils") and a guilty sense that character is fate may have accounted for his bitter judgment. But the fact remains that the world's best-advertised nation of immigrants was built on second-even third and fourth-acts...