Some are still shocked and confused by what happened, others express bitter hostility towards the government that sanctioned the repression.
As a lot of teachers see it, they are the focus of bitter hostility from ministers and educational high-ups, and the victims of an increasingly oppressive machine.
Malta, the world's last bastion of Catholic domination outside the Vatican, is today riven by bitter hostility as it awaits the results of a fiercely contested referendum on divorce.
When he attempted to manipulate the inflation rate, however, he ran into bitter hostility from the Liberal Party, which had been his key partner in the 1930 overthrow of the regular Republican Party.
His bitter hostility lasted years, long after the Nobel Prize ceremony in 1923 which Dr. Banting refused to attend, for although he shared the physiology prize with Dr. Macleod, he would not share a podium.
So-called "black supremacy" never existed, but the advent of African Americans in positions of political power marked a dramatic break with the country's traditions and aroused bitter hostility from Reconstruction's opponents.
Twenty-five years of bitter hostility between Iran and the United States might seem to suggest that these countries, at least under their present forms of government, are destined to stay enemies.
Yet, in seeking the pope's support in this matter, he was reversing years of bitter hostility toward Rome years when, like many of his predecessors, including Francis I and Henry IV, he had leaned heavily upon the traditional Gallican doctrine.
What has not been perceived is that the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation has been darkly colored by a prolonged feud, marked by bitter hostility, between two inflexible old men, Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat.
Mr. Kostunica, who has criticized American "meddling" in Serbia before and since taking office, said there had been "a gap in communication" between Belgrade and Washington -- a tactful way of describing often bitter hostility.
