Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a truck that suddenly hits an icy patch of road, the U.S. economic recovery that had been picking up speed for weeks has begun to skid. The bitter cold and unrelenting snows that have gripped the U.S. east of the Rockies are throwing onto unemployment rolls hundreds of thousands of workers, ranging from coal miners in Appalachia to oystermen who cannot chop through the ice in Chesapeake Bay. Soaring prices for fruit and vegetable crops damaged by the freeze are giving a new push to inflation. Worse, even if the weather should warm up suddenly, which hardly seems likely...
...York harbor, the Coast Guard waged a bitter struggle to keep shipping lanes open to the nation's busiest port. Sandy Hook Channel, one of the two main passageways, finally was closed as the unusually heavy ice submerged or moved navigational buoys. No one wanted to risk yet another major oil-tanker disaster. Icebreakers rammed their curved prows against ice up to 18 in. thick to keep the Hudson open as far north as Albany. Surprisingly, the faithful Staten Island ferry kept moving Manhattan workers in comfort to their jobs across the windswept harbor...
Egypt's peasants and hard-pressed middle class-who together make up 90% of an exploding population of 40 million-had for months grown increasingly bitter over continuing "sacrifice" demanded by their government. They chafed under commodity shortages and inflation rising at the rate of 37% a year. Those who shopped in private food stores-where lines were shorter but prices four times higher than in subsidized government stores-complained of constant increases in the cost of milk, meat and vegetables. While they suffered, the nation's remaining 10% prospered. The rich grew richer under President Anwar Sadat...
Although Tanin's government has committed 40% of this year's $3.4 billion budget to the military and police, Thai efforts to push back the rule of the night are sometimes snarled and chaotic. There are bitter interservice rivalries, and undercover agents from different branches seldom pool their information. As a result, intelligence is spotty. Despite all this, Thai troops are performing well, and field officers continue to fight the "other war"-that is, gaining village support. Along the Mekong River, army helicopters rain propaganda leaflets on disaffected villages. The government has devised civic ac- tion programs...
...airlines think flying is only for the rich?" complains the hearty beef-and-bitter type in the ads for Laker Airways. "I've got to give you a better deal...