Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 31 million Americans who suffer from arthritis, the drug Oraflex promised blessed relief when it was introduced in May 1982. A single dose of the remedy had the painkilling power of a dozen or more aspirin tablets. But Oraflex has turned into a bitter disappointment. More than 135 users in the U.S. and Europe have died. Last week a federal jury in Georgia settled the first of some 100 lawsuits against Oraflex's manufacturer, Eli Lilly & Co. of Indianapolis (1982 sales: $2.9 billion...
...mountains. No beaches. No big-league teams. Other than slow-changing seasons, burning summers, bitter winters, and autumns that can be rather a brilliant compensation, only this football team gathers up an entire state of people and brings them to one emotional place. In other regions of the country enamored of college football, there is never just one rallying point, and almost always a cluster of them. For no matter how dominant the University is, some will always root for State, never mind A & M. Over in Omaha, Creighton has stirred a certain passion for basketball, but to most Nebraskans...
...ball around, shot a few hoops in gym class, or played in an office softball game, but few of the 71,000 people in the Yale Bowl Saturday have every played serious full-contact football. We can never hope to beat Yale personally, and are that much more bitter when we lose...
...players such animosity rarely exists. Even in the most bitter rivalries, the game is a test of strength and skill between equals and the teams can shake hands afterwards. The players respect each others abilities and have the exclusive bond of having been in the area together...
...capable of killing Kennedy. The FBI's central office also allegedly sent a teletype that a "militant revolutionary group" might try to kill Kennedy on November 22. The Miami police department sent them information, obtained by wiretap, that white racists were planning to kill Kennedy with a rifle. More bitter critics say that the reason Oswald was not taken into custody was that J. Edgar Hoover was upset with Robert Kennedy, who was in Hoover's territory with his organized-crime crusade...