Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign for the presidency, a largely ceremonial post, was the most bitter in Austria's post-World War II history. It forced Austrians to confront their part in the actions of Hitler's Germany during World War II and again raised the issue of anti-Semitism...
...time, a frustrated Southern said she did not understand how the department could function with both an executive committee and a chairman. She said the administration had not involved her in crucial policy decisions during her absence, and left the chairmanship "bewildered" and somewhat bitter...
...Soviet Republics, but nowhere else." The Borlovs have not received mail in two months; they know that friends abroad as well as from inside the Soviet Union have been writing. Despite this isolation, and continued restrictions on their ability to work and study, the Borlovs were not bitter. We saw them once again on Sunday, and Misha told us with a mixture of hope and pessimism, that, once again, he was filing applications for visas on Monday...
Infuriated by the charges, Peres last week sought to fire Moda'i, thus triggering a bitter standoff. Shamir, who is scheduled to become Prime Minister in October under the coalition agreement, blocked Moda'i's dismissal and accused Peres of seeking to scuttle the political accord. When Moda'i offered to resign Wednesday, Likud ministers closed ranks. If Moda'i goes, Shamir vowed, "all Likud will go too, and Peres should know that in contemplating sacking Moda'i, he is in fact bringing down this government...
Still others, O'Brien among them, find bitter ironies, particularly when the ideals of religion are made to serve the expediencies of nationalism. In the Middle East, as in the author's own Ireland, mixing God and politics has been a formula for intractability. O'Brien carefully works his way to this point, noting that rhetoric does not always reflect reality. For example, the Jewish state derives its reason for being from ancient texts that have little relationship to liberal theories about the consent of the governed. Yet Israel is a vigorous democracy. By contrast, the 1968 Palestinian National Covenant...