Word: bitterly
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Indeed, the Soviets appeared to have few illusions about their wily guest. In a bitter attack on Papandreou only a year ago, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda pointed out that his Socialist party had campaigned on pledges to pull the country out of NATO and close down U.S. bases in Greece. Today, more than three years later, Greece remains in the alliance and a new U.S.-Greek base agreement has been negotiated. Editorialized Pravda: "There are many objective obstacles on the way to progressive changes." Said a Moscow-based Western diplomat: "The Soviets must wonder if Papandreou ever means what...
Despite pressure from the Greek delegation, the Soviets refused to be dragged into Greece's bitter dispute with Turkey over Cyprus, and the official communique contained only a vague acknowledgment of Greek claims in the Aegean Sea. Since Greece and Turkey are strategically placed close to the Black Sea, Moscow wants to maintain good relations with both countries. The Soviets pleased Papandreou by agreeing to build a gas pipeline through Bulgaria to Greece, starting in 1986, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion. Moscow also promised to award Greek shipyards orders for four vessels worth $65 million and contracts...
Harvard was down 6-4, but outside bitter Sean Doyle's excellent spiking, rallied the Crimson to close the match with...
...neighbor emerged from Elmer Steffes' white farmhouse amid the gentle bluffs of southwest Iowa. "You might as well go home--and take your dog with . you," said Steffes' 23-year-old daughter Kay, in a bitter undertone that the neighbor did not hear. Inside the house, Elmer, 47, a sturdy, barrel-chested man, explained he is losing his 460-acre farm and suspected that the neighbor might have been snooping around for the bank that will seize his property. "You can't be too sure of anybody these days," Steffes said...
...tobacco program will not go down without a bitter fight in Congress. "It's war," declares Republican Congressman Larry Hopkins of Kentucky. Senator Jesse Helms passed up the chance to be chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee simply to protect tobacco as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The Reagan Administration has decided to separate the tobacco program from other agriculture subsidies in order to keep Helms & Co. from holding the whole farm bill hostage. If the Administration goes on to kill the tobacco program, Hopkins warns, farmers will walk away from the obligation to pay off Government loans...