Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some diplomatic fig leaves failed, surprising few Soviet citizens, who have long since made up their minds about the misdirected war effort. "It was a noble cause," said a returning soldier last week, "and a mistake." Moscow's task will be to resurrect dignity from the rubble of a bitter defeat that cost 15,000 Soviet lives and produced no tangible gains...
...into chaos over the question of just how much power should be allocated to the Tehran-based groups. At week's end the shura was postponed indefinitely. "It is like trying to make a circle from a square," sighs a rebel commander. "You cannot make a coalition out of bitter enemies...
Congressional Democrats remain slightly puzzled about how to react to Bush's strategy of proffering a velvet glove clutching a closed wallet. After years of bitter deadlock with Reagan, they tended to mute their criticism of a President so palpably eager to negotiate. Some, like Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, were amused by the incongruities of the President's new compassionate language. "Bush sounded a lot like Michael Dukakis," she joked. "I hate to use that L word, but it sounded liberal, liberal, liberal...
...roommates may try to tell you I'm a little bitter about this entire activity because I failed my first ski lesson--learning to stop. They'll utter something about how 90 percent of my group passed the screening test and were allowed onto the slopes, while I was kept back for four hours on a one degree incline practicing the snowshoestop position...
ENVIRONMENT: A bitter cold wave heads east...