Word: bitter
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...reputation for impetuosity has followed him since an episode in the Commons in 1976 when, irate over a demonstration staged by Labour M.P.s, he seized the ceremonial mace and brandished it over his head. Heseltine's sense of judgment was called into question again in 1986 when, after a bitter argument with Thatcher over the bailout of the privately owned Westland helicopter company -- she favored an American, he a European partner -- Heseltine stalked out of a Cabinet meeting and announced his resignation. An able orator and administrator, Heseltine, 57, has spent the past four years campaigning quietly but persistently against...
After nine months in office, Watson has had partial victories (a long- overdue 6% pay raise for the department) and bitter setbacks (the city council rejected a group of her nominees for assistant chiefs -- two white males and a Hispanic woman). Alfred Calloway, a black councilman who opposed Watson's choices, stresses that little of the opposition was directed at her personally. "There's still an old Southern gentleman sort of thing here," he says. "They might be giving her more trouble if she weren't pregnant...
...like an ultimatum, backed by a genuine readiness to fight, and Saddam might not believe it even then. So the U.S. has to prepare for war. Anyone with a shred of human feeling can say that only with a suppressed scream of fear and pain. The U.S. confronts a bitter, tragic, even ghastly necessity. But, this time, it is a necessity that there is no honorable way to avoid...
...proposition the angry Californians did pass limits members of the state assembly to three terms, while state senators and other state officers will be confined to two terms. The voters' overall message, sums up Larry Berg, a political scientist at the University of Southern California, was bitter and crotchety: "We don't trust...
Lauderdale kicked this year off with a "Wild Kingdom" party, since he "always wanted a resurrection of `Bungle in the Jungle,'" a party thrown last year, he says. "Hello Kitty" invitations for the event asked that "no bitter or negative people" attend, he says...