Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winds of War, Al Wedemeyer secretly met at 10 Downing Street with Churchill and in the White House with Roosevelt. Wedemeyer felt Roosevelt's demand for unconditional surrender in 1943 was a grave error, compelling Germany, which might have turned against Hitler, to fight to the bitter end. Wedemeyer's closest friend from the Kriegsakademie was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who planted the bomb that nearly killed Hitler...
...this letter, copies of which I am sending to The Harvard Crimson and the Cornell Daily Sun. I wish to make public my bitter regret about my behaviour at the Harvard-Cornell hockey games: Specifically, for throwing a bottle onto the ice at the end of the game. As a Harvard student and as a human being I am deeply ashamed. The action was wrong, irresponsible, and inexcusable. My intentions were not violent and I have been hurt by The Crimson's persistent misreporting that I threw a can that hit the Cornell goaltender. However, this does not alter...
What made the defeat particularly bitter for the commanders was that the Druze had succeeded because the Israelis had prevented Christian reinforcements from reaching Aley. The Christians' relations with the Israelis have been in decline for some time, particularly as the result of Ariel Sharon's heavyhanded treatment of Phalangist elders, including Party Chief Pierre Gemayel, during a meeting last month. For their part, the Israelis are angry with Amin Gemayel for refusing to sign a peace treaty with them, and are trying to show him that he needs their support. But Gemayel is convinced that to sign...
Sunday's fire at BU brought back bitter memories for the University of Michigan, whose economics building burned to the ground last Christmas Eve. The school recently received an insurance settlement of $1.4 million, but has yet to permanently relocate its economics department...
...bitter feud that has split one of the South's best-known institutions of higher learning swirls around President Hanly Funderburk, 51, who took office in April 1980. Funderburk's policies have sapped morale, antagonized many members of the faculty and administrative staff, raised the specter of political control and brought into question the mission of the 127-year-old institution in the Alabama town that bears its name. Three vice presidents have resigned in protest, and the faculty has twice passed no-confidence votes against the president, the last by a 3-to-l margin. In November...