Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indictment was a bitter blow to Donovan, 54, a seminary graduate who once considered becoming a priest. Instead, he went into the construction business, and became a millionaire building subways, bridges, tunnels and airports in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. One of the first business executives in the Northeast to come out strongly for Ronald Reagan during the 1980 Republican primaries, he eventually raised $600,000 for the campaign. Donovan's reward was a Cabinet post. From his earliest days in office, however, he was plagued by accusations, mostly made by gangsters, that he and his company...
...participants in the five-day conference denounced the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and urged the banning of nuclear weapons in Britain, but their main preoccupation was the bitter coal strike. The miners want to force the National Coal Board to rescind plans that would close 20 uneconomic pits and pension off 20,000 miners. About 50,000 of the country's 180,000 miners are still working despite the union walkout. So far, 817 police have been injured and 7,000 strikers arrested. As he sat with his N.U.M. delegation on the conference floor in Blackpool, Scargill...
...lighter defeat was a bitter one for Gillette, which introduced its butane-fueled throwaway in 1972 and used a bright Jiminy Cricketlike creature as the product's symbol. But Bic, the American subsidiary of France's Societe Bic, jumped into the market the following year and quickly pulled ahead...
...inferno has been stoked by his belief that love in its modern forms - friendship, political idealism, familial responsibility, courtly lust - can conquer all. As he discovers in remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues in fair and foul weather, his bitter first wife and Maggie, love conquers nothing but the lover. It drains him, proves him inadequate, drives him toward madness. Suffocated by Maggie's whims and paranoia, Quentin cannot feel even that signal emotion of the nice guy: guilt. He can only expel his last vestige of feeling when she pleads...
...Damon A. Silver '86, chairman of the Harvard branch of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), said that "a significant number of people are going to be angry and bitter and active" if Reagan gets reelected. At the same time, a victory for Mondale--whom DSA supports--could make "people say, 'Great. Now I can go back to playing football'" and turn away from activism...