Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Resentment of small-town bankers is boiling. Some say that they now get the silent treatment on the street, and a few have been assaulted by angry customers. Nebraska farmers have taken to wearing black armbands to protest foreclosures. Bankers have also become the target of a bitter joke making the rounds in the Midwest: "Question: What's the difference between a dead skunk on the road and a dead loan officer? Answer: There are skid marks by the skunk." That kind of talk deeply offends the bankers, who in many cases grew up with and went to school with...
...three combines, several planters and cultivators. The equipment, which is parked outside the office of the Prairie Rice Co. in Chesterville, cost $1.4 million. "If we got one-fourth of that," Anderson says, "we'd be happy." His brother Arthur, 53, who farms 1,000 acres near by, is bitter about those who buy at forced sales. "At auctions, farmers pounce on a used tractor like vultures," he complains. "They're just feeding on someone else's misfortune...
Cambridge's three subway stops have always made the city a haven for many of the Boston, areas homeless, but according to some working to combat the problem, the past two weeks' below-zero temperatures and bitter wind have exacerbated their plight...
Weinberger's fling with elective politics ended unhappily with the bitter loss of a race for the California attorney general's office in 1958. In the 1966 gubernatorial contest, Weinberger backed Reagan's opponent in the primary but signed on with the former Hollywood actor in his victorious general election campaign. A year later, Governor Reagan made Weinberger his finance director, launching his career as bureaucrat extraordinaire...
...ships carry nuclear weapons. The matter came to a head last week when Lange refused a routine U.S. request to allow an American naval vessel to call on New Zealand during naval exercises in March. The Prime Minister thus set the stage for a prolonged and potentially bitter battle with Washington over the future of the 1951 ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.) security pact...