Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most meaningful section of this rather lengthy book is the final three chapters. The 1981 season summary contains no recap of the season or the World Series--only a bitter diatribe against the strike. Another recounts an afternoon spent watching a Yale-St. Johns contest beside pre-World War I pitching hero Smokey Joe Wood. The final article covers the ups and downs of a once-great college pitcher bouncing around the minor leagues. These pieces, each moving by itself, make a strong statement together. The true fan, infected with an inherent love for baseball, has not abandoned the game...
After negotiating a settlement last month to a bitter, year-long dispute with Harvard, a group of tenants at a Mt Auburn St apartment complex slated for renovations are complaining that the University has failed to meet its agreement to relocate them...
...trio of Meese, Baker and Deaver was also still smarting from the fact that the Israeli invasion had undercut Reagan's trip to Europe, where he was trying to demonstrate U.S. leadership in the world. Says one bitter Reagan adviser: "We begged Begin to hold off on anything until after Reagan returned to Washington, and he didn't even give us the time...
Named for a Muddy Waters song, the Stones departed almost immediately from the static scene in which they were born. They travelled, figuratively at first and later in person, to the United States, where they sought the gritty texture and bitter taste of the music played by American Blacks. "Blues" or "rhythm and blues"--the labels were imprecise and unimportant. When the pace picked up and the beat straightened out, it became "rock and roll." Jagger, Richards and Jones thought they would bring the real thing back to Britain. Once they got moving, they ended up bringing it back...
...women who work outside the home. To your special burdens of race and gender are also added the serious problems facing our entire nation. For far too many blacks, this country is still a land of mirage where shimmering lakes of equality and opportunity turn out to be dry, bitter sands of discrimination...