Word: bitter
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From 1974 to 1977, Peres was Defense Minister in the Cabinet of then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a bitter personal and professional rival. Feuding between the two Labor leaders sapped the party's strength in the 1981 elections, preparing the way for Begin's victory over Peres. The Peres-Rabin struggle continues to pose a threat to Labor's electoral chances. Already, polls show the combined support for the two Labor leaders to be far behind Begin's. Asked who was best suited to be Prime Minister, nearly 2,000 Israelis canvassed by the Jerusalem Post...
During eight years of bitter sectarian strife in Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, 34, gained a reputation as an iron-willed warlord of his country's Christian militia forces as he fought both Muslim and rival Christian groups. But now Gemayel, who will take office as President on Sept. 23, is talking like the national leader of Christian and Muslim alike. Last week Lebanon's President-to-be, lounging in blue slacks and an open-necked shirt in his 400-year-old ancestral home in Bikfaya, talked with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn about Lebanon's problems. Highlights...
...unusually large turnout left its mark on most cases. The bitter rematch between Gov. Edward J. King and the man he beat four years ago, Michael S. Dukakis, drew more than a million voters across the state. In Cambridge alone, 25,000 Democrats cast ballots Tuesday, twice as many as in 1980 and 60 percent more than...
Some students are angry or bitter at unexpected burdens, and a few accuse the aid office of passing costs to them or counting on upperclassmen to scrimp and survive the last year or two, rather than leave. Others blame the federal cuts and the new limitations on Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL) for the crunch and are relieved that their packages will still get them by. The common denominator, though, is a feeling of fear, of near-escape. Everyone, it seems, has heard vaguely that some students cannot afford to come back. No one knows just...
...given courage, a sense of adventure and a little bit of humor. I have had a wonderful life. I have never regretted what I did." The odor of bitter irony, intentional or not, arises from this simple declaration by Ingrid Bergman. She was a wise, sober and gifted woman, wryly self-aware in a manner unusual in her profession, gallant in a way that is rare anywhere. But once, many years ago, she had an extramarital affair with one of her directors-an event not without precedent in human history-and the shape of her life and her career...