Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already thinking the unthinkable, why not admit the bitter truth? One cannot put the genie back into the bottle, beat plutonium into plowshares, or transform the Politburo and KGB into pacifists. Tragically, the idea whose time has come is the very idea of nuclear war. It can and should be postponed by deterrence, but it is sheer utopia to believe that there could never be a miscalculation...
...Hussein launched his invasion of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province 18 months ago, Iran could boast that it had gained the upper hand on the battlefield. Appropriately, the places of honor at the rally went to the front-line heroes and wounded soldiers of Iran's bitter struggle with its neighbor...
...rather a television and movie documentarian ("The Selling of the Pentagon" and "Hearts and Minds"), and his technique in Hometown draws on this video background. The book consists of several contiguous but not exactly connected vignettes: a high school basketball game, a murder and subsequent trial, a bitter strike, a hot rumor. These usually fascinating little dramas, it seems, are metaphors for life in Hamilton, which is, in turn, a metaphor for life in these United States Sort of a little far removed...
...coup showed again how little real control the U.S. has over events in its own backyard. U.S. analysts had been aware for several months of the rising dissatisfaction among the junior officers. Bearing the brunt of the fighting against the guerrillas, the lieutenants, captains and majors had become increasingly bitter over the corruption of the Lucas García regime, and wanted to clean up the country's human rights image in order to obtain U.S. military aid. They therefore called for fair elections and an end to el continuismo, the old-boy network of senior military officers that...
...most crucial election campaign in the history of El Salvador came to a bitter end last week with a stream of venomous accusations. The major parties indulged in a final orgy of personal insults, cries of corruption and charges of treason. The torrent of abuse not only reflected the riven society in El Salvador, where more than 30,000 people have died for political reasons since October 1979; it sadly showed how difficult it will be to build a unified nation in the future...