Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of exclamation points, there were question marks. And I turned bitter at this betrayal...
After the heavy's B.U. meet came a dual meet against Northeastern, which was a bitter disappointment for the No. 1 eight. The Huskies, who Radcliffe had topped back on April 1, edged the Black and White by three-tenths of a second. The second varsity boat got revenge, winning in three seconds, but that was not the way Radcliffe wanted to go into Sprints...
This woman's story perhaps most clearly illustrates the dilemma that Radcliffe seems to face today: the fact that for many alumnae, Radcliffe is a bitter remembrance of a time when they were not allowed equal treatment as students at Harvard. Yet that is not to say that when Harvard and Radcliffe merged in the '70s, equality swept into the river Houses and eradicated years of entrenched discrimination; women still found obstacles in the classroom, in their living environments and in their extracurricular activities. One editor at Newsweek recollected during a panel on women in the media...
...realize this piece sounds relentlesslynegative. I mean to be critical, not bitter. I'llalways appreciate the friends I made here,especially two: my roommate of four years and awonderful person I consider my best friend. And asa reporter and editor at The Crimson, I found agroup of young writers who love newspapers and aregenerous--maybe too generous--with their time...
...strident and divisive police policy undertaken the previous fall [by the Nixon administration] had begun to reap a bitter crop," the authors write...