Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...westward. We could and should remain good neighbors. But we should respect each other's sovereign territory. Turkey maintains 120,000 troops equipped with landing craft in the Aegean. Obviously, this is not for defense against the Soviet Union. It seems aimed at Greece. It's a bitter fact...
...Thursday, there were reports that the armed forces of Egypt and neighboring Libya, a bitter foe of Sadat's, had been placed on alert, and that rioting by Muslim fundamentalists had broken out in the southern Egyptian city of Asyut, long a center of religious militancy. The clashes in Asyut, in which both police and protesters used firearms, causing hundreds of casualties, did not subside until army reinforcements were brought in. But there were no mass arrests within the army as a result of the assassination, and the country as a whole remained quiet...
...Long a bitter foe of the Jewish state, he became Israel's only declared friend in a hostile region. A self-styled defender of the Palestinians, he was cursed as a traitor by the leaders of their cause. He preached the unity of Arab nations, but his policies shattered such fragile fraternity as existed, and isolated his country...
...relations. That trip, he believes, was important for his country because China and the U.S. have had "more years of friendship" than antagonism. And it was important for Yao, Chief of the Press Division for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, because most of his life has been dominated by the bitter conflict between the two nations...
...procession of dudes pauses to talk to Baby Love. Most have done hard time. Some push dope, many are boozers. All have bitter wisdom. Crocodile comes by waving a bottle of vodka, his eyes gleaming yellow. He tells Baby Love, "Wait till you do hard time, boy. They'll pat your butt, they'll feel you. You'll come home swishing like a girl." A huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes...