Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First there was a bitter exchange of words between the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and benefits task force leader Provost Jerry R. Green over the union's role in determining changes...
According to many new members, Ferrell was too bitter, Jason E. Schmitt '98 was too green and too ambitious and former vice president Joshua D. Liston '95 was too controversial...
...poorly executed. An appeal to a large crowd should not be prefaced by insulting it, by calling it "LAME", Polite rhetoric is not a difficult achievement if the time is taken to marshal your arguments and present them in a civilized manner. Aside from Mr. Griffel's bitter demeanor, his prose was horrendous. If I were to read the column out loud, it may sound correct. I would expect from a newspaper, however, articles which are more firmly grounded in proper English written style. Not once in the entire article could I find a paragraph with more than two complete...
...women had made the vertical Long March to respectability in the office and the bedroom, but according to Hite, they felt abused and desperately confused. The book's statistics and haranguing tone troubled TIME writer Claudia Wallis. Yet under the sheer hype, she discovered a bitter truth that transcended sexual specifics. "Women are finding that they cannot have it all," concluded Wallis. "They are staggering under the burden of trying to be all things to all people -- the nurturing parent, the successful ) careerist, the sexual athlete. Today they are asking men to play all these roles...
...Harvard Club of New York and its 130 striking employees announced yesterday that they had negotiated an end to a bitter six-month strike that attracted national media attention...