Word: bitterest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pope Paul VI has strong feelings about priests who have asked to be relieved of their vows. So strong, in fact, that last week he put them in one of the bitterest possible Christian contexts. In his Holy Thursday sermon, before performing the traditional foot-washing ceremony at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran, the Pope harked back to the presence of the traitor Judas at the Last Supper and asked: "Who cannot but feel a shiver in his heart at the grave and terrible comment of Jesus: 'It were better for that man if he had not been...
...attributes her ease of communication to Radcliffe's composition: "I'm really like a dean here-I don't even have a faculty between me and the students," she said. But communication has not always been good. The hunger strike of May 1967 was un-loubtedly the bitterest period of her time at Radcliffe. Twenty-three students starved themselves for five days in protest of the policy that year to let only 36 seniors live off campus in their own apartments. Off-campus houses were in the process of being torn down of sold to make room for Currier...
...Hall in the Kremlin is a reminder of ancient ties that once linked Russia with Europe. It used to be the throne room of Catherine the Great, a German princess who became Russia's Empress. Last week, as the Soviet rulers undertook an act of reconciliation with their bitterest European enemy, they chose St. Catherine's as the setting. As millions of Europeans, both East and West, watched on television, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt stepped into the hall, past icons depicting St. Catherine holding a cross. At the same moment, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin entered from...
...speaking to a group of striking typographers in San Rafael, Calif. He came home weary to Delano at midnight only to find a message from John Giumarra Jr. The largest producer of table grapes in the U.S., the Giumarra family's company was also one of the bitterest foes of Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. After five years of Chavez's la huelga-the strike -against table-grape growers, and a few days of inconclusive confrontation the week before, Giumarra wanted to talk seriously. "No attorneys, just heart to heart," the message read...
Other managers are working on a variety of fronts, but their strongest effort has been concentrated on hiring and training programs. It is the obvious place to begin; businessmen have their most noticeable impact on society as employers, and one of the bitterest complaints of the black community has been against job discrimination. Though employers in many places are obliged by law not to discriminate, there are ways of setting seemingly neutral hiring standards that in fact bar the blacks. In the past, for example, many companies required job applicants to have high school diplomas, which favored generally better-educated...