Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More seriously, the ugly side effects of economic hardship are still brewing throughout the country. The underlying hatred and prejudice which often plague race relations, and which are always exacerbated when groups fight over a limited pie, came out in especially bitter form in Chicago, where Democrat Harold Washington almost lost his party the mayoralty for the first time in five decades, simply because he was Black. And even the potential recovery on the horizon will not be for everyone, as the mass migration to the Sunbelt continues, while the cities of the industrial Northeast and Midwest are left...
...shift from protest to politics, some venerable black institutions ironically are getting left behind. The N.A.A.C.P., once the pre-eminent champion of racial justice, is rived by internal feuding. The bitter personality clash between Chairman Margaret Bush Wilson and Executive Director Benjamin Hooks took an unexpected twist last week when Wilson bowed to pressure from 2 angry board members and | backed down from her decision to suspend Hooks. Then she, instead, was asked by the board to resign...
...Jenkins, now on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, showed that the two areas with the highest mortality rates in the state were the Boston black ghetto of Roxbury and the working-class white enclave of South Boston, which had been locked in a bitter feud over school busing. Mortality rates in these two "death zones" are elevated not only for hypertension-related ailments like stroke, but for all causes of death. Even the rate of cancer among Roxbury men was 37% above the state average...
...Using the same device in scalding counterpoint, Nichols has James and his alter ego collaborate on a steamy love letter to Kate at the same moment that it is being read aloud by Eleanor's alter ego to Eleanor and the person who intercepted it: a bitter middle-aged friend (Stephanie Gordon) whose late husband Kate had also stolen...
...confusing how elections are decided with how wars are decided. But he was also reflecting the widely held belief in history's obedience to the dictates of popular will. That belief and its corollary, the futility of force, are usually and facilely attributed to America's bitter experience in Viet Nam. Viet Nam, however, did not introduce to America the idea that political power derives from hearts and minds. In a democracy founded as an act of national will and based on the notion of popular sovereignty, that idea has a more ancient pedigree. It also has considerable...