Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fatah, is frequently at odds with George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose Marxist cadre seeks to overthrow not only Israel but also conservative Arab governments like Saudi Arabia-Arafat's bankroller. Both Fatah and Habash's group have had bitter quarrels with four smaller but vociferous members of the P.L.O.-the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front-General Command (now split into pro-Iraq-Libya and pro-Syria factions), the Syrian-dominated Al Saiqa and the Iraq-based Arab Liberation Front...
...come inside and get warm. You can call a taxi from the station." The good guy is all concern. And you follow him inside to the coffee and doughnuts. That man has bothered you. Not the way the good guys think, just made you mad and miserable and aching-bitter as bones that never have a dry spot to rest on Sunday nights. But you and the good guys are on the same side, really. And with them you don't get confronted by anything that makes you uncomfortable. So maybe you'd better wait inside...
Each team managed to come up with a couple of bona fide scoring chances in the exhausting contest--one URI shot bounded off the post in overtime--but for the most part the main actor in this bitter drama was the weather...
...reunion of old friends. They were meeting to assess how the signatory nations have complied with the "Three Baskets" of the agreement-military security, economic cooperation and humanitarian exchanges. It will not be an easy task. Even before the meeting began, there were fears that it would become a bitter political wrangle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over human rights...
Although Stephens says he expected that Harvard would readmit him sooner, he says, "I'm not bitter and can't afford to be bitter" about Harvard's actions...