One undercurrent of their bitter exchange suddenly came clear to me.

The fight over the money for veterans' care sparked bitter exchanges between the parties.

It has also set off bitter exchanges between the management teams.

But such statements of support have done little to put a stop to bitter exchanges in the public press.

Her hope for some sort of reconciliation between my mother and father after the bitter exchange of words was not to be.

The most bitter exchanges came in reponse to questions about personal integrity.

At the time, there were bitter exchanges between state and city officials.

Long meetings, bitter exchanges and distasteful compromises are often the order of the day.

The campaign's waning days were marked by bitter exchanges by all the participants.

That may be true again, although increasingly bitter partisan exchanges in an election year make the outcome unpredictable.