Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real-life husband and business partner Desi Arnaz. The confident king of the castle, he was always ready to teach Lucy a lesson. Looking back from an '80s perspective, some observers have suggested that Lucy was virtually an abused wife. In retrospect, Ball might have agreed. Certainly, she was bitter about the off- camera problems caused by Arnaz's drinking, philandering and intense workaholism...
Long a source of grim jokes and bitter complaints by the Soviet public, the chronic shortage of many consumer goods has only worsened under perestroika. Nonetheless, the Kremlin has been reluctant to dip into its hard-currency reserves (around $40 billion, according to Western estimates) to buy consumer goods from the West. But faced with rising discontent, Deputy Minister of Trade Suren Sarukhanov announced last week that the Soviet Union has signed contracts with companies from ten foreign countries to supply products with a retail value of some $2 billion in the hopes of at least temporarily quelling demand. Among...
...classic courtroom confrontation: defendant and prosecutor, both decorated Marine veterans of Viet Nam, locked in a bitter cross-examination. The Oliver North who endured four days of acerbic questioning by prosecutor John Keker last week did not come across as a selfless patriot used by superiors to carry out a covert plan for assisting the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of a congressional ban. Instead, North emerged as an evasive witness with a selective memory and unusual personal finances...
...Other bitter souls call for more extreme punishments. One even suggested giving the trio front row tickets to the British Soccer League championships. But not even the most hard-hearted jury in the country would go for that...
Tass quoted Shevardnadze as saying the lessons from the incident were "difficult and bitter," adding that the events were "detrimental" to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform policies...