Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thereupon, with a pickup crew that somewhat resembles a World War II movie platoon-a Chinese, a Japanese, a couple of woebegone Wasps, a Jew, a bitter widow, a good-looking woman doctor and a majestic black man-the professor sails west searching for the mysterious island that will convince his colleagues that he actually deserves a full professorship...
...future may come out of the plenum of the Tenth Party Congress, and preparations for that already seemed under way last week. As the mourning for Mao drew to a close, no one could say whether the plenum would ratify the present leadership or mark the beginning of a bitter power struggle whose outcome few Chinese-and no outsiders-could possibly foresee...
Blacks in the South have made greater strides than in the rest of the country and are more hopeful of the future. For this historic breakthrough, blacks themselves are primarily responsible. In the face of intense white resistance, their struggle for equality was bitter, costly and ultimately triumphant. But whites too have profited from the change. They have been liberated from an obsessive preoccupation with an unjust system of discrimination; they can now turn to more constructive projects...
...bitter argument early last month between two obscure Harvard employees over the use of a Holyoke Center computer has escalated into a complex, hotly contested appeal proceeding that hinges partly on charges of incompetence against two of Harvard's vice presidents, a high level University financial officer and several of its computer experts...
...Abel Candidate Lloyd McBride, 60, the head of St. Louis-centered District 34. Sadlowski has some chance of winning the February election, given the Steelworkers' tradition of successful insurgencies. Abel himself ousted David J. McDonald as union president in 1965, and Sadlowski won his district presidency in a bitter 1974 campaign against an Abel-backed candidate...