Word: bitterest
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...daffodils were abloom in London's Hyde Park, and over at Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put on her brightest smile for the tourists. It was, after all, nearly the end of one of Britain's bitterest winters, and she had reason to think that sunnier days might be ahead for her government. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe had just presented the House of Commons with a new budget. It shrewdly offered a little something for everyone, effectively assuaging dissidents within the Tories' own ranks and taking the steam out of expected Labor opposition...
...last Ginsberg is ready to stand and perform, as he has at coffeehouses and on campuses since the late 1950s. Howl begins with one of the bitterest and best-known lines in American poetry: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...
...centrifugal force of things. On the other hand, almost every human transaction (sex, marriage, politics, for example) and even human traffic with the divine (religion), is a form of negotiation, the everlasting mating dance of the quid pro quo. Those engaged in negotiation, even when they are the bitterest of enemies, are held together within a membrane of hope and desire and (presumably) enlightened selfishness...
...began last week-after the bitterest election campaign in Israel's 33-year history-a struggle for power between Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 67, head of the ruling Likud bloc, and Shimon Peres, 57, leader of the Labor Party. Both men immediately started to try to put together a coalition government that would control at least 61 seats, the number needed for a Knesset majority. Begin clearly had the best chance of succeeding, but the likelihood was that any government's margin would be so slim that new elections might have to be called within a year...
...wants something, but it is not an immediate response. He knows that there will be none. A letter is not written for response but for effect. In that, it is not only art but a statement of esteem, since the effect is sought of a particular person. Even the bitterest letter is a form of homage. Samuel Johnson once wrote Lord Chesterfield, giving the earl a piece of his mind. But the mind of which the letter was a piece was the greatest in England...