Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That, at least, is the bitter complaint of some of the party's prominent elected officials. Their solution? To form another caucus, of course, this one composed primarily of Southern and Western white males and operating outside, if not in opposition to, the National Committee...
...ended last Saturday night far from Briggs, with a bitter one-point loss to a bunch of Yale freshmen in the gym where the Crimson's co-captains once recorded their career highs. Like the season, the game slipped away, and before Harvard could grab it and spend the time it would take to turn the whole thing around, it was gone...
...still maintains that the local ban is "arbitrary and capricious" and filed an appeal on March 5 in what is expected to be a long and bitter fight with the city...
Pickens has never actually acquired a major corporation. His usual style has been to frighten a firm by first investing in it and then proclaiming that he could run the corporation, which invariably dwarfs Mesa in size, better than its current officers. After an often bitter battle, Pickens' harried and outmaneuvered prey frequently sells out for a high price to a friendly rescuer. That leaves Pickens without an acquisition, but with an immense profit on his shares of the company...
Even though Kinnock later accepted her explanation, the vitriolic Commons exchange was a bitter pill for Thatcher at a time when she should have been happily celebrating her tenth anniversary as Conservative Party leader. To add to her troubles, Britain's eleven-month-old coal miners' strike dragged on, even as a major poll put the Labor Party neck and neck with the Conservatives at 37%, an 8-point drop for the Tories in the 20 months since the last general election...