Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department official, "are getting so hard to keep track of, we're thinking of numbering them." At issue were the Carter Administration's continuing support for Soviet dissidents and its challenge to the Kremlin on human rights. After weeks of smoldering anger in Moscow, and increasingly bitter thrusts at the U.S. in the Russian press, the Soviets' counteroffensive had stepped up-with a vengeance...
...galloping epidemic of inflation jitters has spread through the economy in recent weeks. Public fears of runaway prices have been stirred by the recent leap in fuel, food and other living costs caused by the winter's bitter cold and crop-killing drought in the West. Businessmen and investors also worry about the back-to-back budget deficits (totaling $125 billion this year and in fiscal 1978) that President Carter has estimated as one result of his program to stimulate the economy. Irwin L. Kellner, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, fears a return to consistent double-digit inflation...
THIS DEVOTION to cerebral abstraction and the life of the studio became increasingly hardened as Degas moved past his fiftieth year and turned more bitter and misanthropic. His eyesight was failing, and his inability to work in less than full light led him to turn increasingly to sculpture. Profound disillusionment and contempt for much of life set in; along with his love of setting mental problems for himself through his art, this frustration suggests some personal reasons for the effect that most of these bronzes produce. The awkward, tortured poses both challenged Degas as master of design and visually expressed...
Trudeau did not sound bitter about Nixon's nasty description of him, as revealed by the Watergate tapes. He could understand, said Trudeau, why somebody might call him an "asshole," as Nixon had done. Really, he went on, Nixon had been good to Canada, even kindly in phone calls and small courtesies to Trudeau personally...
Through the bitter German winter of 1948, West Berliners were kept alive by the Berlin airlift, a dramatic cold war counterploy to surmount a Soviet-inspired blockade of the city. Two million tons of food, fuel and clothing were flown into Tempelhof and other airports by U.S. and British cargo planes on 277,569 flights over a 15-month period. This year, with two-thirds of the U.S. under the siege of winter, Berliners responded with aid of their own. In a month-long Help America fund drive that ends this week, they raised $500,000 to help the American...