Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PAUL, Minn.--For Harvard forward Ed Krayer, it was a game that avenged the feeling of a bitter loss...
Lafester's choice: Iowa State. Coach Johnny Orr had flown to Memphis, where, says Lafester's mother Elsie, "he made two promises -- that he would graduate and that he would play pro ball." Lafester did neither. Today Elsie is bitter. She feels Iowa State did not keep its word. "My momma talks about it - every day," says Lafester, who after five years left Iowa State a few credits short of a degree in family and consumer science. He took twelve hours of classes, but often put in 20 hours of practice a week. Ironically, it was his freshman year, when...
...talking leader of the airline's machinists, who makes no attempt to hide his personal animus toward Lorenzo, responded with characteristic defiance. Said he: "We take no responsibility for the strike. This is a Frank Lorenzo strike." Eastern's differences with its unions had long since deteriorated into a bitter and highly personal feud between the two men. While Eastern insisted that the airline could not survive without substantial wage concessions from the machinists, Bryan maintained that Lorenzo was out to destroy the carrier and sell it off for his own profit. Lorenzo's battle with the machinists, said Bryan...
...hostages drag their agonizing discussion late into the night. Pastor Weir and Father Jenco make no effort to put themselves forward, and Sutherland is too much of a gentleman. But Anderson nearly takes a swing at Jacobsen as the two men engage in a bitter contest to be chosen. Anderson wins the vote, but then is devastated when Hajj refuses to abide by the decision. "Terry Anderson will not be the first to be released," he snaps. "He might be the last one." A few nights later, Hajj tells Pastor Weir he is going home...
...Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset, 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains. Appointed to clean up the corrupt Moscow party committee, he quickly fired hundreds of bureaucrats and barnstormed the city, criticizing food shortages and general incompetence. But his reforming zeal and a bitter public debate with Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev led to his public censure and ouster from the Moscow party position in November...