Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North Carolinians young and old began to focus their attention on radios and portable television sets, and the latest round in a bitter Senate race...
...candidate. Simon, for instance, supports a proposed balanced budget amendment. His differences with Mondale have aggravated the Percy campaign, much as North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt's independence has frustrated that candidate's opponent, Senator Jesse Helms. And, like the Helms-Hunt contest, the Percy-Simon race has been bitter. A Percy commercial unfairly offers Simon's four year tax plan as if it were a single year plan-a tactic which makes Simon's plan look extreme and extravagant. In their one televised debate, Simon called the ad "sleazy...
...Winter managed to dither away his political strength. First, after his supporters won a bitter struggle to have him appointed chancellor of the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss") last December, Winter waffled, accepting the post and then changing his mind a week later. Then he appeared even more irresolute by agonizing for two months over whether to challenge Cochran, making up his mind, some say, only 20 minutes before his announcement. Compared with Cochran's upbeat, exuberant performance, the bespectacled, scholarly former bond attorney's campaign is rather dispirited...
When Mrs. Eliot threw me out of the sandbox, I was bitter for weeks...
What little harsh reaction there was came mostly from Roberto d'Aubuisson, head of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance and Duarte's bitter opponent in the March presidential elections. D'Aubuisson denounced the gesture as "a political show, a farce." He later adopted a more conciliatory posture after his vice-presidential running mate, Hugo Barrera, endorsed Duarte's notion of talks with the guerrillas and asked only that the President spell out "clear, definite and concrete means" toward a solution to the civil war. The right's quiet response was a sign of another Duarte...