Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United pilots agreed to return to work last week after a bitter month-long walkout that cut the airline's schedule to just 14% of its normal 1,550 flights...
Golab, 61, died at the FRS plant in Elk Grove Village, Ill., ten minutes after collapsing near a vat of cyanide, which is used to help recover silver from exposed photographic film. Other FRS workers testified that the plant reeked of bitter almonds, cyanide's telltale odor. Cook County Medical Examiner Robert Stein said death was caused by "acute cyanide toxicity," and that during the autopsy, Golab's chest cavity had smelled so strongly of almonds "that it hurt both the eyes of myself and my assistant." After rendering his verdict, the judge revoked bail for the defendants...
...most people, an annual income of $35 million would be reason to celebrate. But heirs of Billionaire Oilman J. Paul Getty, who died in 1976, chose to litigate instead. In a bizarre and bitter feud, family members sued to break up the $4 billion trust that has been the source of their fortune and to remove Gordon Getty, 51, a son of J. Paul's, as sole trustee...
...largest U.S. family fortunes and divides the authority among the four branches of the Getty line, which includes 26 heirs. Said Seth Hufstedler, one of some 20 lawyers in the landmark case: "Great efforts have been made toward family peace. The alternative is clearly years and years of bitter litigation...
...Getty who will receive nothing from the agreement is Los Angeles Businessman Jean Ronald Getty, 56, J. Paul's son by the third of his five marriages. After a bitter 1932 divorce from Jean Ronald's mother, the senior Getty cut his son off from the family fortune. Although Jean Ronald's children will eventually get a share of the trust's assets, their father will continue to receive only what J. Paul allowed him: $3,000 a year...