Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response is reflex and relentless when the defial comes from a Kennedy. True to form, scarcely 48 hours after Robert F. Kennedy became an open rival for the presidency, Johnson launched a massive counterattack. During a week whose pace and tempo seemed more attuned to the windup of a bitter election than to its opening hours, the President made it clear that he was prepared to use all of his immense powers and political wiles to thwart his adversary...
...Market Square carrying placards that promised "Warsaw is not alone." Shouting down professors who called for calm, they cut classes and jostled with police the next day. In Lublin, at the Communist bloc's only Roman Catholic university, several students were arrested after clashing with police. Elsewhere, bitter but nonviolent protest flared-in Poznan, Wroclaw and Szczecin in the west, in Gdansk on the Baltic and in Lodz, near Warsaw...
...Ivanov, Chekhov's first full-length play and first single-shot suicide, and Yepikhodov's unfulfilled promise to "shoot myself so to speak" in Chekhov's last play, something has obviously happened. Laurence Senelick, directing his own translation of Cherry Orchard, pays proper attention to the writer's final, bitter playfulness by mouthing a production that breaks through the somber fragilitv of traditional Chekhovian staging to a vital if slightly fuzzy theatricality...
...London gold pool and on Wall Street. The economy has been distorted and the balance-of-payments deficit exacerbated by the war effort. The Administration can no longer hope to disguise or postpone these problems; it must come to terms with them now, and the terms are bitter...
...their music, the Fish have fun with drugs. 'We're gonna make him drop some acid," someone mutters at the fadeout of "Superbird," a direct and bitter stab at President Johnson...