Word: bitterly
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...lesser powered boats, scoop in what is left. If this were a democratic game, the boats on the line would drop back with their fill after a set time, allowing those behind a chance, but it is not, and anyway, shrimpers, like hawks, do not share. Thus feelings are bitter within the fleet, and the bitterness is exacerbated by a parochial rivalry between the shrimpers from Cameron, the port town nearest the Firing Line, and the shrimpers from the lakes, like Captain Cretini...
...bitter defeat. The White House had mounted a determined, if muddled, last-minute campaign to head off the override. Three days after he vetoed the sanctions bill, which had been passed in August by the Senate (84 to 14) and then later by the House of Representatives (308 to 77), the President sent a letter to House Speaker Tip O'Neill offering to impose some measures in an Executive Order. The proposal included bans on the import of iron and steel but omitted coal and other important items, like the cancellation of airport landing rights. Congress was in no mood...
...Vietnam veteran, Liteky is one of the few Americans who has seen the bitter realities that accompany foreign policies like the one that our nation is carrying out in Nicaragua. Whether by neglect or intent, the American people don't see the human cost of our activities, and make no effort to influence the policy decisions made by our strategists...
Some Administration officials were privately bitter that the U.S. seemed to have caved in to Kremlin bullying. But they were overruled by none other than Ronald Reagan, whose compassion in this instance overpowered his visceral anti-Sovietism. Reagan personally approved the arrangement Thursday afternoon (it took nearly 24 hours to nail down) for the simplest of reasons: he had been touched by the plight of Daniloff, and just wanted to get the reporter sprung. Said the President: "We are so relieved and happy that Mr. Daniloff is out of his 8-by-10-ft. cell, which he was sharing with...
Benazir Bhutto, 33, was back at her Karachi home last week after 25 days in prison. In an interview with TIME, the charismatic leader of the opposition to Pakistan President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq sounded more bitter and less certain than when she was firing up huge crowds with calls for national elections. But she was still defiant, blaming the government for the fact that 40 people have been killed in recent disturbances. "This regime is prepared to shoot at people quite mercilessly," she said. Nonetheless, Bhutto appeared shaken by her imprisonment, and by the failure of the millions...