Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only hours before his arrest, De Lorean said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. that the money was in a U.S. bank, but neither receiver could confirm it. Said Cork: "Right at the bitter end I was receiving telexes saying the money was definitely available. We said, 'Fine, but let's see it in a bank account,' and that never transpired...
...term must be taken in summer, and one cannot attend for four fall terms, except under special circumstances), and courses were added in Afro-American Studies. Women's Studies, and "Policy Studies." The alumni, predominantly conservative, responded unfavorably to these changes and one other, one which has provoked bitter controversy because of the symbolism involved...
...enough human being. He is kind to his wife Helen (Meg Wynn-Owen), though she is an execrably sloppy homemaker. Even if he has to cook the meal, he sees to it that his three children are properly fed. With his mother (Marjorie Yates), who is blind, senile and bitter, Haider is agonizingly solicitous...
History is, in fact, littered with once bitter feuds that sweetened over time simply because the combatants lacked the will or the stamina to sustain them. For three delightful centuries, the Nicolotti and Castellani families of Venice enjoyed so virulent a relationship that citizens would gather to watch them fight it out on what came to be called the Ponte dei Pugni, the Bridge of Fists. If they were not doing battle there, they were knocking one another about on a drawbridge that the authorities would raise, leaving the two factions glowering at each other impotently from opposite sides...
Still in a tight financial squeeze, the company last week announced another round of layoffs at the Star and Tribune: 75 jobs, including 28 from the editorial department. Staff reactions were stunned and even bitter, but none were as dramatic as that of Editor Charles W. Bailey. He resigned in protest, abruptly and angrily...