Word: bitters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since 1945 has been as popular. Korea was a strung-out, bitter bloodletting that ended in a stalemate. What ever happened to unconditional surrender? That had been the victory slogan for World War II, and the U.S. now seemed to expect nothing less every time. If Korea was not a good war, Vietnam was a distinctly bad one. The 15-year struggle in Indochina was even bloodier, more costly and harder to understand than Korea, and its support ebbed away. As the war wore on, it filled U.S. streets with demonstrators, tore up university campuses, split society and families, dragged...
There was something surrealist in the swiftness of the last catastrophe--a drama made doubly bitter by the fact that most Americans had made their emotional peace with Viet Nam. The P.O.W.s had come home, the last soldiers had withdrawn. The nation turned, not happily, to other preoccupations--to Watergate and to coping with recession and inflation. But since Viet Nam had deceived Americans so many times before, it was perhaps fitting that it should be the only war they would have to lose twice...
While Suharto has resisted the bitter medicine of the IMF program, Japan is deaf to foreign calls for deeper tax cuts to rouse its long dormant economy, traditionally the engine of growth for the Pacific Rim. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Congress last week that the Japanese economy was "sinking." Asked whether Japan was doing enough to stimulate the economy, the usually circumspect Greenspan replied, "No, I think...
Tales of blocking deceit abound. According to one pair of bitter female first-years, they were assured spots in a coveted blocking group months ago. They had not even thought about blocking until this past Sunday--when the blocking group chiefs arrived in person at their rooms to inform them that they had been...
With three consecutive losses, and only one win in its past eight games, the Crimson season is in danger of ending in bitter disappointment. If Harvard hopes to salvage its season, it must start its turn-around this weekend against their conference rivals...