Through his magazine, and his very being, John had begun to take the bitter acrimony out of political dialogue.

Their two-week runoff campaign degenerated into bitter racial acrimony when Mr. Massell adopted as his campaign slogan, "Atlanta's Too Young to Die," playing to white voters' fears.

While the two lead singers promoted the tour and publicly claimed mutual respect, rumors of bitter acrimony and mutual loathing between the two singers swirled.

Yet tales of family infighting, bitter personal acrimony and reckless spending are only too common in family businesses, especially, it seems, when the business is retail.

But he had not wanted to have what might be their last conversation spoiled by bitter acrimony.

The transfer of party leadership took place in bitter acrimony as Jeyaretnam later accused Low of not doing enough to help him pay the damages from the libel suit.

Shortly afterward, The Cowsills disbanded completely in a storm of bitter acrimony that left some members estranged from each other for several years.

Britain would formally leave, with no guarantees, in an atmosphere of bitter acrimony and in the middle of a terrible economic hurricane.

In an election year marked by bitter acrimony, especially between Mr. Pataki and Mr. Silver, the budget impasse represents a significant failure of state leaders to perform government's most fundamental tasks.

The treatment of the preliminary report as a publication (in the legal sense) was the source of bitter acrimony between factions of the EDVAC design team for two reasons.