Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural, and secular traditions must be preserved. But in this season of good-will and gift-giving, localities with substantial non-Christian membership should consider foregoing a Nativity scene in a publicly funded display. There is certainly no shortage of alternative private sites for creches. The avoidance of a bitter community division must play the guiding principle. This is a lesson the ACLU surely needs to learn: Christmas this year in Pawtucket will miss much of the holiday spirit. The Grinch must be green with envy...
...people living in and around the city fled. Save for banning liquor, the guerrillas altered little; the public school remained open, and local officials stayed in office. Yet promises to fix the water system and provide a paramedic have gone unfulfilled, and residents are bitter about the destruction of a bridge that linked the town to the coastal highway...
They couldn't figure out why I wasn't bitter. I guess the reporters ran into some people who were. But there was nothing to be bitter about. That was my boy's life. He was fighting for our freedom. If he hadn't been, we wouldn't be able to talk to the press in this country. I surely wouldn't like to live the way they do in some other countries...
Harvard's wrestling team does not forget bitter losses. When it faced Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the first of three matches Saturday at the IAB, the Crimson squad was determined to avenge last year's embarrassing loss to WPI. Junior Captain Sean Wallace set the tone for the day when, prior to the start, he announced, "This is a real grudge match...
...this one ambles along at nearly twice the length. The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse, and De Palma directs his actors to play at the pitch of gross grandiosity but at the pace of a chamber drama...