Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President reserved his bitterest tones for the condition of the hostages, who he said were "bound and abused and hreatened," despite Iran's assurances of good treatment. In private, Carter used even stronger language.* He complained to a delegation of New England Democrats that the Iranian militants were brainwashing the hostages by isolating them from each other and telling them that they had been abandoned by the U.S. The President said that the hostages have not been allowed to bathe or change their clothes, that some have been punished for speaking and that others have been threatened at pistol point...
...bitterest disputes have turned out to be over hunting and fishing. Two precedent-setting battles are taking place on reservations in Michigan and Minnesota that were visited by TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash. Her report...
...glorified hot water" that passes for coffee on Pan Am. The menus on National, which are rendered in French (even for breakfast), though "no Frenchman would give house-room" to the meal that follows. The canned fruit, the cannonball rolls, the senile salads. Some of the British inspectors' bitterest barbs are aimed at British Airways; pace Robert Morley, its "farcically pretentious Elizabethan menu heralded one of the worst air meals ever eaten." A British Airways official, who might have been speaking for most of the chastised carriers, retorted huffily: "I am afraid Mr. Ronay is totally out of touch...
...King Jigme Singye Wangchuk. Castro and his aides orchestrated the arrival of celebrities well: one of the few discordant notes was struck by a brass band that mistakenly played the Egyptian national anthem as Castro greeted Iraq's President Saddam Hussein, one of Egypt's bitterest critics...
...Energy Committee and Carter's principal Senate ally on energy, supported phased decontrol. But a trip back home to the Northwest changed his mind, as voters howled about rising fuel prices. Last week Jackson joined with Kennedy and Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, one of the Administration's bitterest foes in previous energy fights, in co-sponsoring a bill to overrule Carter and extend price controls for two years. With less than five weeks remaining before Congress's Memorial Day break, the bill, which requires a majority vote in both the House and Senate, stands little chance...