Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...items are taken from a recent Cambridge art exhibit that has provoked a bitter debate about free speech and artistic license in both the Cambridge city council and the local arts community over the last month...
...McCarthyites bashed [Harvard] terribly," recalls Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, Samuel H. Beer, an admitted "bitter foe of Marxism...
...their crews for an entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens of thousands of strikes that have helped shape labor law and define the compact between worker and boss. Many strikes have been bitter. Some have been brutal: 18 steelworkers were killed during a 3 1/2-month strike...
...late 1980s a sweet series of Indian triumphs had some bitter by- products. Some recognized tribes won the right to run high-stakes gambling, regardless of prohibitions in bordering states. The result: a handful became fabulously rich, and needed income began to flow to some other poor reservations. But friction increased between recognized and unrecognized tribes...
...They [the opposing team] beat us out, but not as significantly as they would have liked to," Harrell explains. "Each team has its own personality, and they weren't sportsmanlike. They were very bitter. . . they lashed out, saying we were a little too girlish...