Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feelings about the turmoil. I have to say that there is bitter bile in my throat these days. I've never seen the sharks circling like they now are with blood in the water...
That had been a strong possibility even before last week's bombshells about the contra cash diversion. The sale of arms to Iran had hit a raw nerve in a public still nursing bitter memories of the violent anti-Americanism displayed during the hostage crisis of 1979-81, and the Administration's early explanations of the rationale and methodology of the shipments convinced hardly anyone. Briefings of the Senate and House intelligence committees by Poindexter, CIA Director William Casey and other officials on Friday, Nov. 21, failed to dispel congressional feelings that the full story had still not come...
Boesky and his wife took pride in their controlling interest in the Beverly Hills Hotel, though it was won in a bitter family struggle. Boesky's father-in-law had bought the hotel in the early 1950s and left 48% ownership to each of his daughters, Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. Muriel and Husband Burton ran the hotel until 1980, when the Boeskys managed to buy the remaining 4% stake from another relative...
...been trading arms for American hostages held in Lebanon by Muslim zealots influenced by Iran. The purpose of the shipments, he said, had been to give "more prestige and muscle" to factions in Iran that might eventually be able to wean that strategically vital nation away from its bitter anti-Americanism. A few moments before, however, Reagan had conceded, "I said to them that there was something they could do to show their sincerity . . . they could begin by releasing our hostages...
...months now, we have had under way a secret diplomatic initiative to Iran." Purpose: "to open a dialogue" with a strategically vital nation, some of whose leaders seemed willing to moderate its bitter anti-Americanism...