Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There remains bitter opposition, but the year saw the beginning of the end of white dominance in southern Africa. Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, 57, finally bowed to the inevitable and agreed in principle to transfer power in two years to the blacks, who outnumber the whites 22 to 1. Smith would never have given in without the pressure of Henry
...help to land some state insurance business. Pope recalls, "Jimmy told me in the politest possible way to get lost." Carter helped send Boss Hurst to jail on a moonshining charge, and settling another personal score, defeated Sanders for the governorship in 1970 after a particularly bitter campaign...
Compassionately, the British playwright David Rudkin shows us a man and a woman struggling under that curse. Colin (Brian Murray) and Anne (Roberta Maxwell) have been married for a few years and are childless. They have entered the bitter season of their relatives' and neighbors' titters and taunts. The couple consults a medical adviser, a "semenologist...
Through the bitter years of the civil rights battles and the uphill struggle toward power in Congress, Young has retained an almost incongruous sense of humor. "I always used to enjoy throwing out ideas on foreign policy, acting like a gadfly, just to stimulate discussion," he said last week. "Then I got involved with this peanut farmer from Georgia and everyone has started to take me seriously...
...next time around, he ignored the minuscule local Democratic machine and concentrated on opposing mining interests who wanted to despoil the White Cloud Peaks−a federal recreation area−n search of molybdenum. After his election, he continued to pound at his preservation theme, winning a long and bitter fight to protect a 2,000-sq.-mi. "primitive area" from lumbering interests. Going against the wishes of local power companies, he opposed construction of a giant coal-fired electrical generator not far from the state capital of Boise. He also demanded that Atomic Energy Commission monitoring of radioactive wastes...