Word: bitterly
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Freedom, in other words, is a case of divided loyalties, not only in its subject matter -- a nation at bitter war with itself -- but in its execution. For in trying to pay equal respect to the demands of truth and fiction, Safire strands his novel in a no-man's-land between concrete facts and illuminating imagination. He recognizes this dilemma and tries to pass it off as a virtue: "The reader of any historical novel asks, 'How much of this is true?' " But many readers surely have more urgent questions, such as "How much of this is vivid...
...Western Europe, are regaining the positions they lost after World War II and thus are transforming the world into one with multiple centers of power instead of just the two. As Henry Kissinger foresaw, the development of a multipolar world will provide substantial strategic stability by blunting the bitter superpower rivalry with new powers that have to be reckoned with...
...Bitter vignettes from the American home front after Viet Nam? No, those complaints came last week from the pages of the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda. They apparently were a bid to whip up concern for the sacrifices made by servicemen in the estimated 115,000-member Soviet force occupying Afghanistan. One letter writer from Volgograd wondered why tombstones of Soviet soldiers make no mention of service in Afghanistan. "The war is still going," she wrote, "and we are already trying to blot it from our memories...
Reagan must bear in mind the Watergate precedent. In 1974, only one month after Richard Nixon's resignation, Gerald Ford pardoned him for all crimes he might have committed during his presidency. Ford's action left a bitter taste with many voters and may have contributed to his narrow loss to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election. Reagan, of course, is not a candidate for re-election, but he has become increasingly concerned with his place in history and would not want to be remembered for having weakened the chances of the Republican nominee...
...embassies" between France and Iran last week resulted in a bitter cutoff of diplomatic relations between the two countries and a heightened confrontation that threatened even more serious hostilities. France broke off relations first, after rejecting an Iranian demand that it give up attempts to question a 34-year-old Iranian who had taken refuge in the Paris embassy about a series of terrorist attacks. Tehran quickly followed suit, and within hours Western news agencies in Beirut received warnings that two French hostages being held by pro-Iranian Islamic terrorists would be killed. The threats came from callers who claimed...