Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitter city hall contest, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode held a slim lead over former Mayor Frank Rizzo in his bid for a second term. With 92 percent of the ballots counted, Goode was gaining 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for Rizzo, a former two-term Democrat who switched...
Philadelphia's mayoral contest was the most closely watched municipal election, a costly, racially tinged campaign in which Goode, a Black, sought to hold off a comeback by former Democratic mayor-turned-Republican Rizzo. The bitter campaign cost an estimated $3.7 million, as each candidate called the other a liar in their quest to govern the "City of Brotherly Love...
...departure from the organizing drive clears the way for the local group that rejected UAW parentage in a bitter confrontation in 1985, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Last January HUCTW, which has been calling for the UAW to bow out since the split, affiliated with another national parent, the American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees (AFSCME...
...first time I tasted it I thought I was going to be sick. The bitter black liquid was worse than the occasional sips I'd had of my father's beer...
...from friends. Washington Lawyer Leonard Garment (who irritated Bork by presuming to act as his public spokesman) yelled at him, "If you pull out, you're a quitter!" But Irving Kristol, a conservative author, urged him to cut his losses and withdraw. Tired of the emotionally draining experience and bitter about his inevitable defeat, Bork slipped into the White House Wednesday afternoon and told the President he was inclined...