Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stunning rejection of a President's wishes on a major national security issue drew an uncharacteristically bitter reaction from Reagan. "I had hoped that most of the members in the House had awakened to the threat facing the United States," he said. "That hope was apparently unfounded. A majority chose to go sleepwalking into the future...
...Despite bitter attacks-from those ostensibly supportive of Israel, it is people with the strength and vision of a Jacob Timer man who can help guide Israel onto a path of peaceful co-existence with its neighbors and a restoration of equity and general health within Israeli society. As long as Timer man stays in Israel, and his detractors behind their desks in America, maybe there is some hope. Toba Spitzer...
...will submit to Congress a budget with a deficit roughly as large as the one envisioned by Stockman. To most of the top advisers gathered in the Cabinet Room on that day last month, the implications of a deficit of such magnitude were chillingly obvious: continued economic uncertainty, bitter battles with Congress and possible repudiation of the Administration at the polls...
...precisely this cynicism that began to grip Stockman who, as a former peace activist at Michigan State and a John Anderson speech writer at Harvard graduate school, had very much taken the campus-politico route--when the bitter truth about Reaganomics became clear. This cynicism, and a powerful sense of betrayal--reflected in the language of treachery ("The Trojan Horse," "opportunism," "Piranhas") with which he described the Reagan initiative to Greider--ultimately made him frustrated enough to spill his guts to Grieder in their Weekly breakfast meetings...
...could be expected, each of the three major networks has at least one show that just couldn't survive the bitter cold of winters past. ABC executives still have nightmares about "Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey,"--shown in 1977--while CBS took the stuffing out of "Raggedy Ann and the Great Christmas Caper" after it ran in 1978. For NBC, one of the more forgettable holiday specials employed those special ingredients that inexplicably continued to dominate the schedules--a 1979 special called "A Country Christmas," which set Scrooge's misdeeds to a truly sinister beat...