Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toward poverty and even tighter dictatorship contrasts sharply with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for glasnost and perestroika. Ceausescu openly derides Moscow's notions of reform while terrorizing his countrymen with the pervasive Securitate, perhaps the bloc's most feared secret police. Rumania has also provoked an unprecedentedly bitter dispute within the normally cohesive Warsaw Pact, prompting charges from the Hungarian leadership that the Ceausescu regime is systematically discriminating against ethnic Hungarians living inside its borders...
Obscene as cancer, bitter...
Reagan's ability to overfly troubles of his own making on a magic carpet woven of his own illusions remains a wonderment. He has helped banish bad news from the political lexicon. "There are no bitter pills among Ronald Reagan's jelly beans," explains a durable adviser. But eight years of smile-button politics leave a heavy burden for those who would follow, Democrat or Republican. No matter how intractable the problems, the American people have come to expect can-do homilies from their President. Any honest talk about sacrifice or yielding self-interest to the common interest...
Hussein's bitter gambit may be an attempt to force a recognition of his central role in the peace process. It would be a vindication for the King if Arafat fails to live up to the responsibilities thrust upon him and is compelled by his constituency to return -- kaffiyeh in hand -- to plead for help from the King. "Behind Hussein's action is his conviction that Arafat won't be able to pull it off," says Joseph Sisco, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Near East Affairs...
...from Galilee, according to the Gospel of Mark, was himself the first to raise the echoing question "Who do men say that I am?" That question is today not only at the heart of Hollywood's latest controversy but also at the center of equally bitter, though less publicized, disputes among scholars concerning the life of Jesus and what can accurately be said about...