Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...area in which roughly one-third of the population is Catholic and the pro-life movement is strong, was far less gentle. Worried about possible violence, Scranton police substituted plainclothes officers for volunteer drivers in the Ferraro motorcade, and a state police helicopter monitored the route. She faced bitter signs at her speech site in a downtown mall. FERRARO-A CATHOLIC JUDAS, read one. I'M GLAD FERRARO WASN'T MY MOTHER, said another, held by a five-year...
Whites and Blacks on the city council feuded for weeks before the convention, with Blacks harshly criticizing police and city policies set by the white majority. In the bitter name-calling, some whites on the council complained that the Black city councilors were not fit for the job. The Black community responded to this by saying that white city leaders better back off, and not try to tell Blacks who their elected leaders should...
...canceled visit passed down a line of pensioners waiting at the Friedrichstrasse border crossing in East Berlin. "Have you heard?" said one elderly woman. "The trip is off." Holding back tears, her companion replied, "I knew it." Reacting later, an outspoken young East German writer offered a more bitter assessment: "Honecker has bowed to Soviet pressure again." Explained a Western official in the East German capital: "There is almost nothing more important in East Germany than contacts between East and West. The postponement is almost a national tragedy. It hurts, and confirms the sense among the people of their...
...conciliatory gesture by he Kremlin to Pope John XXIII. But Slipyj remained unhappy about the Vatican's Ostpolitik, including its openings to the subservient Russian Orthodox Church. He campaigned publicly for the creation of a Ukrainian patriarchate, with himself it its head, and was bitter that both Paul VI and John Paul II denied him that out of deference to East-bloc relations...
...that tumbled down from the top of the wardrobe and floated like puffs of smoke between the floor and the ceiling." There, amid the old green plants that recall a painting by Henri Rousseau, he reflects upon the failures of religion and revolt. Fortunately for the writer of these bitter meditations, his current fiction has proved more promising than his past careers...