Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli commando tailing the Black September group who is on the verge of beginning to soften and see the other side's point of view, and he conveys the tension between self-doubt and the need to stay tough for appearances with great finesse. Only Marthe Keller, as the bitter Palestinian woman who masterminds the plot, comes up wooden--she seems a little too cold and calculating for someone who's bearing two generations of suffering on her heart. The real star, though, is Frankenheimer, whose direction is tight and professional, and whose product is gripping...
...Mark Young got the Eagles their first tally and then Ward Bitter, the team's leading scorer, pumped home a long shot to bring B.C. close...
Mike Faught, taking the place of injured Bobby Mellen on the man-up unit, put the Crimson back into the lead with a power-play tally, but Joe Gartland and Bitter answered to give the home-standing Eagles their first and last lead...
Safe Bet. Bhutto's troubles are largely of his own making. While Indira Gandhi went down to honest defeat, the Pakistani Prime Minister is reaping the bitter fruits of what was almost certainly a dishonest victory. Bhutto had called elections for much the same reason as the Indian leader. Hand-picked by the generals after Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war over Bangladesh, he had ruled ever since under a state of emergency that, among other things, gagged the press and outlawed political assembly. Last January Bhutto called for elections to give his government a stamp...
Inevitably, the wave of claims has stirred up anti-Indian hostility. "We are bitter," says George Benway, chairman of the selectmen of Mashpee, Mass., one besieged town on Cape Cod. In a combative spirit sardonically known as "whitelash," the Town of Mashpee has filed a countersuit against the Wampanoag tribe -demanding $200 million as the cost of all accrued improvements'if the Wampanoags should win their claim to much of the town's property...