Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve years old, a Plains merchant offered a $5 prize for the seventh-grade student with the highest yearly average. "I could not let up on myself," she remembers. "I had to win it." And she did. In 1980, when a campaign aide praised her husband for not seeming bitter about his loss to Reagan, she retorted: "I'm bitter enough for the both...
...Mediterranean "the soft underbelly of the Axis." Clark noted drily, "It was not so soft." The Italian campaign was the war's most grueling, taking 20 long months and some 300,000 Allied casualties. The forces under Clark faced a German army that for most of the bitter struggle was greatly superior in manpower, ammunition and equipment. The Allies were pitted as well against cruel weather and the narrow, mountainous Italian peninsula, whose terrain precluded sweeping armored advances. Clark had to fight equally frustrating vagaries of politics and strategy. Despite his bitter protest, many of his battle-seasoned troops...
...Thumbelina, one of the most hard-boiled lullabies ever written. Set to a kind of choogling Nashville beat, the song manages to combine love for the innocence of a young child ("shuffled about like a pawned wedding ring") and rage over a broken love affair into a song of bitter pride: "What's important in this life?/ Ask the man who's lost his wife...
Moreover, Kenyatta's actions are particularly disturbing in light of the apparently widening rift between Black and Jewish organizations at Harvard and nationwide. Longtime political allies, particularly on civil rights issues, these groups recently have traded bitter words on a variety of issues; it is regrettable that Kenyatta acted in a way that helps further drive this wedge between Blacks and Jews...
Drawing mostly from old newspapers and memoirs. Alexander meticulously traces Cobb's rise from his youth in Royston, Georgia as the son of a school teacher, to his stormy years of stardom with the Tigers in the first part of the century, to his bitter elder years as a rich iconoclast. A historian by profession (at the University of Ohio). Alexander provides a salutary antidote to the normal glowing style of sport biography, making it clear, despite all the sympathy, that in many ways Cobb was a jerk...