Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invite rather than deter attack-are all expected to be exploited by MX critics on Capitol Hill. With deficits soaring and budget cuts painful to pinpoint, the MX is a tempting target for legislators who read last month's elections as a mandate for defense cuts. The potentially bitter debate also follows recent victories at the polls by the nation's grass-roots nuclear-freeze movement, and the raising of moral questions about nuclear weapons by the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, who specifically criticized the MX in a proposed pastoral letter...
When World War II broke out in 1939, the ANC felt itself gradually pressed towards more radical mass action. Some Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch and German colonists, launched a fervent master race movement, which almost awayed the country to Nazism. Although a close and bitter battle in the South African Parliament brought the country into the war on the Allied side, a few Afrikaner paramilitary splinter groups continued to fight for a republic similar to Nazi Germany. The last South African prime minister, John Vorster, was jailed during the war as a Nazi sympathizer...
...addition to being the site of Trowbridge's rape, the Craigie Arms building across from the Mt. Auburn street post office has been the focus of a bitter, two-year dispute between tenants and the University over Harvard's plans for converting the 60-unit complex to montly luxury housing...
...least something less than an unblinking enemy. And so, now that Yuri Andropov has become only the fourth new Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin died at the height of the cold war, an irrepressible question is echoing around Washington: Might there be some chance of toning down the bitter hostility between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.? The answer, as far as it could be deduced at the end of a week of busy diplomatic signaling, seemed to be a highly qualified and tentative...
...miles of pipeline and then shipped 1,000 miles by tanker to reach the nearest customers. Says Oil Consultant Walter Levy: "The fact that the oil companies don't have to spend $8 billion for an Alaskan pipeline is a major advantage." Also, not having to contend with bitter Arctic weather will make it far easier to maintain and operate California wells...