Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bitter Defeat. The agreement was not only a victory for Assad but a bitter defeat for Arafat, whose fighting units are now all but immobilized. Nonetheless, the Syrian President and the P.L.O. leader have already moved to patch up relations. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn learned in Damascus that the two men met in the Syrian capital last week and agreed that hard-line "rejectionist" elements in the Palestinian movement -notably George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -must be eliminated to ensure peace...
...decision prompted a bitter dissent from Judge George MacKinnon, who pointed out that DeCoster's lawyer had not talked to the suggested witnesses because he believed DeCoster was guilty, a fact DeCoster in effect conceded during posttrial procedures. Reviewing Bazelon's liberal record, the conservative MacKinnon sounded an unusually personal note, saying that "practically all criminal convictions would be set aside" if Bazelon had his way. "What my colleague overlooks is that the public has some right to have the guilty convicted." Colleague Bazelon may also have neglected to consider fully the increasingly conservative view of the Supreme...
...little time in seizing on his unusual advantage, continually reminding his audience that he was the man who restored decency and trust to the Presidency, a man who cleansed the White House merely by his presence. And it would appear that Ford's image has successfully weathered both the bitter contest with Ronald Reagan in the primaries and the general election campaign against Jimmy Carter...
They started with smiles and Senator Robert Dole saying that he hoped it would be a "fun evening. "They ended with bitter exchanges and Senator Walter Mondale calling his opponent a "hatchet man." The debate last week between the two vice-presidential candidates-the first such session in the nation's history-turned out to be a tart and often engrossing display of political theater, a duel between two evenly matched men whose debating skills had been sharply honed during the wars on Capitol Hill. Both Mondale and Dole sometimes articulated the views of their top bananas more concisely...
...sexy Bitter Rice, starring Sylvana Mangano, who became his wife, that made Dino his first fortune. He used the money to build Dino Citta, his film studio in Rome. Thereafter he plunged big on spectacles like War and Peace and The Bible; tides of money ebbed and flowed. Four years ago, he moved his operations to the U.S. The reason: "I begin to sniff trouble in Italia. I no like what I smell in the politics or the economy." He now says that his only mistake was not moving a decade earlier. "No other country makes room for foreigners...