Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again, the nation's energy debate deteriorated into a cacophony of angry charges, bitter recriminations and defensive denials. As irate Americans paid their first newly inflated heating bills, Exxon and other oil giants last week reported a new Spindletop of profits. For a people unshakably convinced that somebody must be ripping them off on energy prices, here was smoking-gun proof...
AMHERST--When the Harvard-UMass women's soccer game ended yesterday with an overtime score of 4-3, your first reaction was merely to savor the exciting, aggressive styles of both teams. Then, like a bitter aftertaste, you remembered that the Crimson had lost its first game of the season...
...grand coalition" of their two parties, which together poll more than 70% of the vote. Both are very near the center, with the Justice Party leaning a bit to the right and the Republicans to the left. But such a coalition appears impossible, because of the personal animosity and bitter rivalry between the two men. They are totally different in style and personality: Ecevit, 54, is an intense, ulcer-suffering intellectual and poet; Demirel, 55, is a talkative extravert and was a successful private businessman before he entered politics...
...said, "I'm ready to unite with the devil to checkmate the Giscard-Barre policy," he and Socialist Chief François Mitterrand are bedeviled by a problem: they are not even on speaking terms. There has been no attempt by either man to patch up the bitter ideological split that destroyed their chances of winning last year's legislative elections. Jacques Chirac, the ambitious Paris mayor and neo-Gaullist leader who hopes to challenge Giscard in the 1981 presidential election, has not yet recovered from his party's drubbing in the European Parliament elections...
...November 1936, an American artist in New York scrawled a note to a friend in Paris. "This evening," it announced with bitter formality, "I leave for the great beyond." He posted it, went to his room and swallowed an overdose of veronal. Thus, at the age of 55, died Patrick Henry Bruce, aesthete, Virginia dandy, misfit and expatriate, a direct descendant of Patrick Henry and one of the most interesting minor painters of early modernism. In Paris, where he lived for 30 years, Bruce had helped Matisse set up his art school. He was a friend of Robert and Sonia...