Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fence-mending 18-day tour of Western Europe, President Samora Machel, 50, was presented with a medal from Queen Elizabeth, and persuaded the British government to waive his country's payment of a $30 million debt. In Portugal, Mozambique's longtime colonial master and Machel's bitter foe during a ten-year struggle for independence, the former guerrilla commander declared that the two countries were bound "in a friendship of steel." Upon returning home, he gave his blessing to the accreditation of an American ambassador less than three years after expelling four U.S. diplomats on charges...
...most furious gold rush since the Gay Nineties. Canadians queued up in the bitter cold, frequently for hours at a time, uncharacteristically quarreling with one another, while waiting impatiently to buy tickets. Americans thronged across the border to get in on the game as well...
...five bobsledding gold medals during the '20s, '30s and '40s, but the bitter bobsledders' joke is that some of those crates are getting pretty old. To this enterprise, the U.S.O.C. chips in about $100,000 annually, and Corporate Sponsor Lederle Laboratories helps somewhat. But the equipment afforded is far from the best on the mountain. Not just holding down the bobsleds, but holding them down for the count, those good old boys from Saranac Lake, Plattsburgh and Keene Valley in upstate New York are still just about the best bobsledders in the Adirondacks and not quite the worst...
...quotient of women in the ranks of tenured Faculty members--currently 17 out of about 350--has long been a source of bitter criticism from many Harvard teachers and students...
...York Herald Tribune, he wrote columns for Figaro Litteraire, Punch, the Daily Mail of London and any number of American newspapers to finance the restless trips that took over his life. He covered everything from political conventions to the Viet Nam War, which he supported nearly to the bitter end. By then his oddly incompatible circle of friends came to include both Jazz Guitarist Eddie Condon and Lyndon Johnson. When, nearly 60 and plagued by circulatory ailments, he climbed into a camper and spent three months chugging across the U.S. with his dog, the hit-or-miss quest could have...