Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunlit surface of this hamlet in its finest hour is clouded by a dark shadow-the bitter split within the Baptist Church over admitting blacks to membership. June Turner, wife of a deacon who opposes this change, talked about the agony to come, and tears slipped from her eyes. Without speaking his name, she blamed Jimmy Carter for pushing their church "into the spotlight, for putting it into politics." She wore no Carter button. Plains has produced a new President for the '70s, but is still fighting a battle...
...much admired, Harry Truman, and he cannot be faulted for not trying. From the beginning, it was a long shot-an accidental President swept into office on a wave of scandal, stuck with the worst recession since World War II, confronted with a charismatic opponent in a bitter primary fight and then with an all-things-to-all-people Democrat in the general election...
Favored Penn also swallowed a bitter bill earlier this season, coming out on the short end of a 14-10 score; the Quakers then went on to upend Brown. After a little bit of deductive reasoning, it's pretty apparent that Columbia should be the hands down favorite...
...remainder of the game served only to frustrate the Harvard alumni and students who had braved the bitter cold to cheer for a Crimson win. Harvard's offense was unable to move, but following Sullivan's second score, the Yale second-string offense produced two more touchdowns...
...Labor government is convinced that fulfilling such conditions would mean its own downfall, since it rules largely by the favor of the unions, which would be horrified by such measures. In that case, Britain would be thrust into a bitter election campaign; though there has been talk of a national coalition government, both Tories and Laborites now seem set against it. The outcome could be a Tory government pledged to spending cuts that, according to Prime Minister Callaghan, would plunge the nation into social turmoil, or drastic cuts in British imports and the standard of living decreed by a government...