Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast; they would drink only spring water. Still other parishioners vowed to keep a daylong prayer vigil. The demonstration that unexpectedly erupted last week in the Church of St. Joseph the Worker, a parish in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus, recalled dozens of similar protests during the bitter days of martial law. But in one respect it was remarkably different: for the first time Poles gathered to show their displeasure not with the Premier, Wojciech Jaruzelski, but with Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Primate of the influential Roman Catholic Church...
When the immediate sensation of such bitter sorrow fades, the Crimson will be able to reflect positively on the season as a whole...
...Shultz, who helped to negotiate the pact and views it as the only tangible accomplishment of his diplomacy in the Middle East, fought for it past the bitter end (see following story). Appearing before reporters hours after Reagan's breakfast retreat from the accord, the Secretary of State insisted with an unaccustomed quaver in his voice that it was a "good agreement" that should be preserved. Said Shultz: "Those who would dispense with it must bear the responsibility to find alternative formulas for Israeli withdrawal." Another State Department official made the same point, only more bluntly: "We were asked...
Harvard Biologist Matthew Meselson, 53, has been embroiled in bitter controversy ever since he suggested last spring that the "yellow rain" in Southeast Asia, which the State Department claims is biochemical weaponry used by the Soviet Union, is actually bee droppings. Last week, as the beleaguered Meselson sat dictating letters requesting $700 from the Harvard administration to help fund his work, the phone rang. An official of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago informed him that he had been chosen to receive a fiveyear, no-strings $256,000 award. Meselson covered the mouthpiece and gleefully exclaimed...
...daring as the author would have his readers believe. There are hugs and kisses for loyal friends and aides, a few acknowledgments of worthy opponents, but mostly he comes down harder on ex-officeholders than on powerful incumbents. New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who defeated Koch in the bitter 1982 Democratic gubernatorial primary, gets good grades for being tough on unions and wise in his staff appointments. Ronald Reagan ("He thinks like a studio executive") was treated shrewdly from the start. During the 1980 campaign, Koch distressed fellow Democrats by briefing the Republican candidate on the city's problems...