Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Journey ...is a play in four acts that traces the development of the Tyrone family through agonizing dialogues between the four characters during one day Events of the past are highlighted through solitary confessions from the drug-addict mother, the Irish actor father, the tubercular younger son and the bitter and cynical older...
Town officials are hunkering down for a long court fight against what they call forced housing." Rumor has it that a few hotheads are forming a violent, Klan-like squad. But even residents bitter about the prospect of black neighbors are, for the most part, unhysterical. "We don't want them living here," a Western Electric worker says, "but I don't think we'd have shooting or anything like that." A Polish-American welder is similarly resigned: "I'll stand it as long as I can, and then leave Cicero if I have...
From a management point of view, the obvious reason to muffle the closing was its bitter irony. The flight of Detroiters to the suburbs afflicted the city and accelerated Hudson's demise, but--embarrassingly--Hudson's itself had been intimately involved in promoting this suburban growth. By opening branch stores in suburban outlets, Hudson's had actually sapped the pull of its flagship store; down-playing the store's ultimate failure was, then, more than understandable...
Reagan has proved repeatedly throughout his term that he is out to reduce student aid. His latest proposal, while it sounds nice, is merely sweet icing for the same stale, bitter cake...
...dispute. One Sunday early on, commandos from Dallas, or maybe Fort Worth, smuggled scores of chickens into the Washington stadium as part of a scheme to disrupt the marching band. Though the chickens were discovered in time, and distributed to needy families in turn, the incident left a bitter taste...