Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...torn El Salvador, Fisher led separate negotiation workshops to end bitter feuding between FMLN guerrilla leaders and the government of Alfredo Cristiani...
...When I saw my last ball drop into the nick, it hit me that my days of competitive squash at Hemenway Gym had come to a tasty yet bitter sweet end," Polsky said...
That often used word, roughly meaning "acting together," implies that all Salvadorans really want the same thing and are willing to put aside their bitter past to work for it. Mostly, however, the country seems to share the helpless attitude of Guerrero, who waits for something to spring from nothing. The blood shed during the past 12 years and the deep divisions that remain suggest that, hard as it is to envision, things may get worse in postwar El Salvador before they get better...
...mother did the actual typing, while "my father did the pacing up and down" -- roughly the same job division as in childbirth. Henry wrote a charming memoir of the couple's life together, We Thought We Could Do Anything, leaving out most of the bleak parts -- the alcoholism, the bitter fights that made their daughters beg the two to get a divorce, both parents' descent into mental illness. It was enough to make Nora, the eldest of the pair's four daughters, vow to put Hollywood, movies and screenwriting a full continent away from her own life. She became...
...toughest political challenges, when the city voted on Proposition 1-2-3, a referendum that would have allowed owners of rent-controlled units to sell the units to their tenants. Critics argued that the regulation would deplete the supply of affordable housing, and the proposition was defeated in a bitter election...