Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President ought not to get involved in the nitty-gritty [of a long fight], but I do think he and Governor Reagan and Governor Connally should agree on a consensus choice [for chairman] who is not tied to anyone's presidential ambitions. If we go through a bitter contest for control, we won't be able to make a comeback in the congressional elections of 1978, to say nothing of the presidential election...
...been involved in a bitter competition with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters since 1970 over which union would organize the lettuce pickers...
...less promising future is portrayed in harsh, space language. The "Village Market" with its "sun, emaciated donkeys, flies...' is replaced in a "False Step" by the alienation of the city. "Here there is nothing I know/And nothing that knows me," says the recent urban immigrant arriving in weather as bitter as his mood. This theme of inexorable dislocation runs through a number of the poems. In "Flower Seller" Najafi realizes that"...the farthest limit of my voyage I reach after passing beyond all bounds." An artist recognizes a similar dilemma in "The Birth of the Poet:' "I have left...
...candidates-both 38 and both articulate and able-staged a Pier 6 campaign. Green's commercials carried the tagline MAN AGAINST THE MONEY-though the Democrat spent nearly $ 1 million himself. Green is a bitter enemy of Philadelphia's Mayor Frank Rizzo, but Heinz depicted Green as an unwholesome machine politician, captive of the Philadelphia Democratic organization that his late father (whom Green succeeded in Congress) controlled for years...
...those historic opportunities for high diplomacy that so often have been seized upon or lost in the marbled Council Chamber of Geneva's Palais des Nations. Once again, it seemed, peace or more war hung in the balance. Bitter political enemies in Rhodesia met face to face for the first time in what may be a last chance for a peaceful transfer of power from the ruling white minority to the black majority. Despite the mutual suspicion and distrust that permeated the chamber, the fact that the four leading black nationalists and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, a white...