Word: bitterest
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...likened Reagan to Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who tried to appease Hitler in 1938, for Reagan's willingness to appease pragmatists on the deficit. The New Right's special targets are the preppies and pragmatists; George Bush has been the subject of some of the bitterest stories in Conservative Digest...
...saying, finally, is that words have begun to fail. The vocabulary in which his people speak, a jargon derived from televised reductions of reality and popularized psychology, leaves them without the tools they need to know their own minds, let alone the complexities of their shared existence. The bitterest of the many laughs Rabe provides derives from his recognition that the relentless articulateness of his people is only a higher form of inarticulateness...
...restrictions would break a string of successes in expanding and revitalizing the CIA that Casey's bitterest critics admit has been highly impressive. During the 1970s, revulsion over some of the agency's early operations prompted cuts of 40% in the agency's budget and 50% in its staff. At the end of the Carter Administration, policymakers were receiving intelligence estimates at the lethargic rate of one a month...
Demonstrating his passion for cold, Lamine Gueye, 23, an Alpine skier from sub-Sahara Africa who went on from water skiing after moving to Paris, was standing outside on the bitterest day of the Games eating two ice-cream cones at once. As the one-man Olympic team from Senegal, he suffers people's curiosity with a pleasant shrug. "I'm black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill...
...uphill battle against his black opponent, W. Wilson Goode, the city's former managing director, for the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination on May 17. Thus far, however, traditionally Democratic Philadelphia has successfully ducked the racial mudslinging that made Chicago's mayoral election one of the bitterest in American history. Both Rizzo and Goode, along with the three Republican primary contenders, signed a pledge four weeks ago to avoid raising race as a campaign issue...