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Word: vitriolic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Theologian Karl Earth's last letters mix vitriol, compassion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Thunder and Lightning in a Pen | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...malady, Ella returns to claim the Borkman's son Erhart (Freddie Lehne), whom she had reared during Borkman's disgrace. Gunhild wants him to redress the family honor. In a bitter confrontation scene, the two sisters drink from the cup oof the past as if it were vitriol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bleak House | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...government has not yet re-established relations with Egypt, but unofficial contacts are increasing. Sadat still sometimes heaps scorn on his erstwhile Arab brothers, but he has warned Egypt's newspapers not to make unnecessary attacks on the Saudis, and in recent weeks has directed most of his vitriol against Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Hafez Assad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Whom Did It Help? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

Moscow responded with even more vitriol. In a statement to Pravda, Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev accused Washington of launching "a shameless anti-Soviet campaign," being "outright hypocritical" and telling "mountains of lies" about the Soviet action in Afghanistan. Said the Kremlin's aging chief: "The impression is increasingly forming in the world of the U.S. as an absolutely unreliable partner in interstate ties, as a state whose leadership, prompted by some whim, caprice or emotional outbursts ... is capable at any moment of violating its international obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeezing the Soviets | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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