Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alabama, Ann Heldman '60, says the group plans to "take over the bar" of a major Birmingham hotel "and not leave until the bitter...
...faced with perhaps the gravest Constitutional crisis of the 20th century. A series of crimes had been committed by the Nixon Administration, including theft, illegal surveillance, and obstruction of justice. Nixon's own intransigence and "imperial" style of executive leadership did not help his public standing either. Also, the bitter memory of Vietnam was still fresh in the national conscience--Nixon's part in it aroused mixed, but generally hostile, feelings. In general, a mood of antagonism to the Presidency reached an unsurpassed high in 1973, and a major result of this was the War Powers Resolution...
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...football team had hungered for a year. The players considered last season's roughing-the-kicker-penalty-induced, no-time-remaining, 23-21 Philadelphia outcome a raw deal. Much too tough to swallow, Saturday, the fast was over; Harvard flossed with Penn at the Stadium, 28-0, dislodging the bitter remains of last year's devastation...
Even with that large proviso in his plans, Botha's referendum has created deep fissures among white South Africans. During the bitter three-month campaign, those divisions erupted in a bitter broedertwis (Afrikaans for fraternal feud), while the referendum became known as the Great Divide...