Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being "mademoiselle on the reception line dying to go home and loosen her corselet." Everything got loosened up at St. | Martin's School of Art. Hamnett married, disastrously. With a friend, she had started her first fashion company in 1969, but it went bust, in the wake of a bitter divorce, in 1975. "I eventually lost everything," she says. To support herself and her older son Sam, now ten, she free-lanced for some small sportswear labels inItaly, and she kept on making clothes to sell from her London home. Finally, in 1979, she was able to start...
...everyone who has bitter memories of the oil shocks of the 1970s, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries drove oil prices to intolerable heights, today's bargain-basement values seem like sweet vengeance indeed. The U.S. has learned once again to love cheap energy, and why not? Gasoline and home-heating fuels are in plentiful supply. Inexpensive oil helped keep * inflation last year at its lowest level in 25 years, sent interest rates to nine-year troughs and aided in sustaining a four-year-old economic expansion...
...decision involved the case of Gene Arline, who in 1979 was dismissed as a third-grade teacher after she suffered her third flare-up of tuberculosis symptoms in two years. The school board in Nassau County, Fla., said it feared she could spread the disease. Bitter "after what they did to me," Arline sued, arguing that she was protected by the 1973 federal Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination against the handicapped by recipients of federal funds. The trouble was that the law made no specific mention of contagious diseases...
...problem is, the people for whom he has a genial contempt keep upsetting his equilibrium. A harmless pleasantry to the maid about her marriage prospects is rewarded with an unexpectedly bitter rebuke about men. A brief turn on the dance floor with a young woman results in a discomfiting discussion of Irish patriotism. Finally, the innocuous singing of a melancholy Irish air leads Gretta down a bitter path of memory that results in a crushing revelation, of a past life and an unforgotten lover who died for love...
...emerging as Deng's leading rival is another octogenarian, Peng Zhen, 84, chairman of the National People's Congress and a Marxist of the old school. Peng, a contender for top party posts in the early 1960s, was purged in 1966. He is reported to be bitter that he has never been elevated by Deng to the party's top echelon. However, he has turned the Congress, once a legislative rubber stamp, into a center for opposition to Deng's reforms...