Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ugliness of Mr. Kenyatta's behavior, cowardly acquiesced in by Afro-American students associated with BALSA, is especially shocking, in light of Black Americans long and bitter experience with racist victimization and brutalization. It is hard to believe that Mr. Kenyatta's and BALSA's knowledge of this experience is so shallow and unsophisticated that they could transform the occasion of the PLO's UN representative's talk into one of the vilest assaults on the norms of fairness and free speech to occur at Harvard in many years...
Harvard officials make no apologies for their firm opposition--they do not think unions are necessarily best for the University. But this drive has the potential to be extremely bitter. The union, Harvard UAW, has its roots with a group of women workers in the Medical Area who began organizing prevents ago Harvard opposed that drive through two elections and several trips to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), fostering a great deal of ill will on both sides. From the start, Harvard opposed the drive on the grounds that clerical and technical workers from only one area...
such a determinedly anti-union stance is inappropriate at a reportedly liberal institution. Both earlier organizing drives saw bitter propaganda, with each side trying to sway the secretaries, administrative aides, researchers and lab technicians who would vote whether or not to have the union represent them. There were allegations of impropriety on both sides and it is almost curtain that such bitterness will resurface if the union gathers sufficient strength...
...little change in his pre-swing motion, some batting practice in the Leverett House basement and "a lot of work in the off season" changed the 218 bitter of 1983 into the 333 bitter...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill, for one, rejected Reagan's blame-sharing gambit on Lebanon out of hand. "The deaths lie on him and the defeat in Lebanon lies on him and him alone," O'Neill said in an unusually bitter riposte. "He acted against the wishes of our top military, and now he is looking for a scapegoat...