Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Given a second chance, Murawczyk converted. As the ball disappeared through the uprights, so did Harvard's chance to salvage a .500 season. The loss also left a bitter taste in the Crimson's mouth...
Perhaps if I were more self-aware, I might feel, at this moment, something like the bitter resentment and sadness of a well-sated, not to say spoiled older child, forcibly weaned from the breast of plenty to make way for younger contenders for (my) Harvard resources. A close friend of mine, a visiting student, spent most of her time here reflecting on the premature graduation and delivery unto the outside world of the Harvard Student...
...will soon really be forced to recognize the randomness of the real world. College, more than ritual, at least concludes with one, and my grandmother will be here to prove it. Just remember, if you see me sniffling this Thursday, in addition to the pang of nostalgia and the bitter-sweetness of moving on, it might also be in the hopes that Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 will see me, take pity and let me stay on another year or so. Luke Z. Fenchel '99, a government concentrator in Leverett House, was executive arts editor...
...feuding with Grunfeld. Then Checketts met with ex-Bull coach Phil Jackson about taking Van Gundy's job next year. At last week's clinching game against Atlanta, fans chanted Van Gundy's name in a defiant gesture of support. He needs it. The guy looks like the most bitter and broken-down thirtysomething not to have worked for the Clinton Administration...
...undereat because food is so unpalatable that they've lost the desire," says Arlene Spark, coordinator of public health nutrition at Hunter College. "Others overeat because they're looking for something that tastes good." Still others omit important food groups, like vegetables, which to smell-impaired people can taste bitter. The dangers can be more immediate: many people in their 40s begin to lose their ability to detect mercaptans, the warning odors put into propane and natural gas, and may be unaware of gas leaks...