Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote was incredibly close, with Kennedy winning 50.4% of the popular vote and Nixon 49.6%. He accepted the bitter defeat and returned to California. Then Nixon's legendary political shrewdness abandoned him. He let himself be talked into running for Governor of California against the popular Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, and tried to imply that Brown was a dangerous leftist. It was after his crushing defeat that Nixon blew up at reporters and announced that this was his "last press conference...
WASHINGTON -- Admiral Frank Kelso, his pension intact, isn't the only naval officer retiring in the wake of the Tailhook scandal. Lieut. Paula Coughlin, the pilot whose charges of sexual assault launched the official investigation, is leaving the service next week, bitter because she feels her complaints were ultimately brushed off. Adding insult to injury, the Navy's personnel bureau had been claiming she owed it nearly $19,000 of a prepaid pilot bonus that she now cannot "earn" because she is leaving four years ahead of schedule. But the Navy, worried about how Kelso's and Coughlin...
...into account the actual interests of doctors-to-be, rather than one that treats them like cards to be shuffled around in a deck. The ideal system would introduce primary care as an attractive career choice early in the educational process, and not force it down unwilling throats like bitter castor...
...those of you who are bitter and outraged that the Fine Arts department cut its surveys of Western art, you must stretch the scope of this outrage across the entire range of undergraduate education...
...Maurice pegged him for dramas, and he wound up in a variety of serious Eurofilms including Merchant-Ivory's Remains of the Day. "If they would only give me something lighter," he recalls saying to himself, "I'd be better." Finally, Grant's amusing performance in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon brought him to the attention of Four Weddings director Mike Newell and led to his screen break in a real comedy...