Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pride in the military. It infused Veterans Day observances last week, and was evident as Army Rangers and some of the paratroopers returned from the Caribbean. "It's great to feel wanted," Ranger Sergeant Tracy Hickman told one reporter at Georgia's Hunter Army Airfield, contrasting the bitter homecoming from Viet Nam with last week's warm reception. A post-invasion poll taken by the Washington Post and ABC News showed that 63% of Americans approve the way Reagan is handling the presidency, the highest level in two years, and attributed his gain largely to the Grenada...
...moreover, would reap a bitter diplomatic harvest. Israel, which responded to the Tyre explosion by bombing Palestinian and Syrian military positions, usually can hit back and stay within the brackets of the Middle East military equation. For a superpower, such a response would reverberate dangerously and complicate Washington's other goals. Meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam last week, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned that Britain would not support U.S. strikes against Syrian targets. U.S. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, who was appointed to his post two weeks ago, planned to stop in London to see Thatcher...
Reaction in the Arabic press of East Jerusalem was unusually bitter. The moderate newspaper Al Quds declared that there was no difference between last year's massacre of some 700 Arabs by Lebanese Christian militiamen in the outskirts of Beirut and "the massacres now being perpetrated by Syria and its Palestinian helpers." Another paper, Al Sha'ab, mocked the Syrian mobilization of reserves, asking, "If you have something serious to fear, why are you still bombarding the Palestinian camps...
...letters were not an admission by the party-controlled press that Czechoslovakia, a staunch Moscow ally, opposes the new Soviet missiles. But in their combination of idealism and bitter frustration over the arms race, they revealed that some East Europeans share the anxiety of many of their Western neighbors over the failure of the superpowers to agree on curbs for medium-range nuclear weapons...
...jobs of some 700,000 union members in the fading domestic steel industry; following heart surgery; in Whitehall, Pa. After quitting school at 14, he went to work in a St. Louis foundry for 250 an hour, became an active unionist who rose through the ranks and survived a bitter insurgency fight to inherit I.W. Abel's mantle only to see the Steelworkers' membership plummet by half during his term from a 1979 high of 1.4 million...