Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cantabs earned a share of the Ivy League crown, but their half-championship was tainted by the bitter memories of the Penn debacle...
...bitter campaign for the Somerville state senate seat between Rep. Vincent J. Piro (D-Somerville) and write-in candidate Salvatore Albano came to a stormy head yesterday when the city's community access television station broadcast a reading of Piro's corruption trial transcripts...
Kerry has also had to fight the image of privileged pol, which was vivified in one of the most bitter exchanges of the Democratic primary race, which Kerry won by a narrow margin over Rep. James M. Shannon (D. Lawrence). In a radio debate with Kerry, Shannon said. "The middle name Forbes doesn't give you the right to go around impugning people's integrity." Kerry had attacked Shannon for the alleged role he played in giving a tax break to a local life insurance company...
Reagan also invokes bitter memories of the Soviets marching into Afghanistan and the Iranians holding 52 U.S. hostages for more than a year. "I'm proud to say that during these last four years not an inch of territory has been lost to the Communists," he declares. Last week he presided over a White House ceremony celebrating the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. On a swing through California, he stood in front of a production model of the B-l bomber at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale and reminded workers there that the last Administration...
...Jesse--better known to outsiders as Republican U.S. Sen. Jesse A. Helms and Democratic Gov. James 8, Hunt, Jr.--were preparing to mix it up on statewide television in the fourth and final debate of their bitter Senate race. And true to the last 18 months of campaigning, both...