Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That lament, from a pop ballad that is sweeping west Africa, probably seems overdrawn to most Americans. Not so for Josephine Najingo, a 28-year-old mother of five who lives in the dusty Ugandan trading center of Kyotera, near the Tanzanian border. For her, the lyrics describe a bitter reality. Josephine is dying because she had sexual intercourse with her late husband. A prosperous trader, he had contracted "slim disease," a painful wasting away of body tissues by uncontrolled weight loss, chronic diarrhea and prolonged fever. The affliction is the most common way that AIDS manifests itself in Africa...
...highlight of the five-day visit was a three-hour session with Gorbachev that one American termed "a lively give-and-take." The Communist Party General Secretary took a hard line on U.S.-Soviet relations. Calling the current bitter feelings between Washington and Moscow "unworthy of great nations," he blamed the impasse on groups in the U.S. "to which hostility is % profitable." Gorbachev spoke broadly of "forces that need the U.S.S.R. as an 'enemy image' and use the high-powered information media to sow hatred toward the Soviet people." The Soviet leader still had hopes of holding arms-control talks...
...followed several weeks of political unrest. On Jan. 22 a violent clash between soldiers and pro-land-reform demonstrators left at least a dozen dead. A week later, a tense three-day coup attempt ended when rebel soldiers surrendered. The President's margin of victory forced even her most bitter opponents to concede that it represented the popular will. "We accept the verdict of the Filipino people," said former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who led the rightist opposition under the banner of the Nationalista Party. He added, "We did our share in making democracy work by taking the other...
Though I can't speak for other campus activists, I can only give Joseph my heartfelt apology that racism, murder, the separation of families and all the bitter harvest of apartheid, bore him, or even put him to sleep. It's ironic that Joseph should charge that "complaints rarely move beyond the whining stage," when he has given us a piece of infantile whining rarely matched even in the Crimson...
...distinction, the Khmer Rouge found that they had also abolished all expertise, so that the "whole society was working at maximum -- and brutally enforced -- inefficiency." And even after the murderers were routed, there was no release: the Cambodians who were still left found themselves squeezed between their two bitter enemies, the Thais and the Vietnamese. Those who survived the degradation, May admits, did so only by embracing...