Word: bitterly
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Still ahead lay nine months of bitter debate before the necessary nine states ratified what had been written that summer in Philadelphia. Ahead lay the creation of the Bill of Rights. Ahead lay the Civil War, which led to the 13th Amendment, finally abolishing slavery. And the 19th Amendment declaring that women have the right to vote. But on this 17th day of September 1787, Washington wrote in his journal: "The business being closed, the members adjourned to the City Tavern, dined together and took a cordial leave of each other; after which I returned to my lodgings . . . and retired...
...Topeka whites were bemused, even annoyed, at Smith's resurrection of an embarrassing era that they regarded as long since closed. Few had any idea that no court had ever specifically ruled that the city's schools were in fact desegregated. Among Topeka's 11,000 blacks, there was bitter disagreement about the merits of returning the case to court. Says Marvin Edwards, who became Topeka's first black superintendent in 1985: "You almost wonder what the big issue is. There has been tremendous progress toward integration since...
...special interests also use the courts to nibble at Executive power. Environmentalists filed suit in 1971 to prevent Nixon from conducting an underground nuclear test on Alaska's Amchitka Island. The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 in the President's favor, but the battle left a bitter residue. Patrick Buchanan, then a White House aide, recalls asking Nixon what he would have done had the court gone against him. The President's angry response: "I was going to fire it anyway." That, perhaps, was a signal of troubles to come in Watergate, of Nixon's dark impulses to force...
Both sides in the bitter abortion dispute agree that a technology-dependent viability standard provides a weak foundation for constitutional rights. A new Reagan appointee to replace Justice Lewis Powell could tip the court majority. But any effort to find a new basis for the nation's abortion law would have to reckon with the essentially irresolvable conflict between society's obligation to protect a newly independent life and the mother's right to privacy...
...United pilots had never forgiven Ferris for a bitter 1985 labor confrontation. The chairman demanded that United employees accept a two-tier wage system that would relegate newly hired pilots to a lower pay scale. In protest the pilots staged a 29-day strike, but Ferris prevailed and set up the new wage system anyway. He insisted that the carrier needed lower costs to meet the challenge of cut-rate competitors like Texas Air, which through a series of mergers has eclipsed Allegis to become the largest U.S. airline company, with both Continental and Eastern now under its wing...