Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Engineers seem more than ready to shake off the bitter memories of the season. Last Tuesday, RPI handily downed a talented (seventh-ranked) Vermont team, 5-1, in Burlington, Vt., in the playoff-preliminaries, earning the right to come to Cambridge...
...hate anybody. I even pray to the Heavenly Father for the fellow that shot me to ask forgiveness of his sins, because I have forgiven him. (During his 1972 presidential bid, Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer, which left him paralyzed from the waist down.) I don't feel bitter toward him. I would have wasted myself away if I had been hating all these years. I don't hate...
Abortion has been illegal in Ireland since the 1860s. When pressure to moderate the law began rising in the 1970s and early '80s, the Catholic Church and antiabortion activists pushed the government to hold a 1983 referendum incorporating the ban into the constitution. After a bitter campaign, the pro- lifers won the vote by a two-thirds majority. The resulting constitutional amendment obliges the government "to respect . . . defend and vindicate" the right to life of the unborn. No exceptions are allowed except in some cases where the mother's life is in danger...
...must go to his work; most of it cannot come to you -- not the murals and not many of the paintings either, most of which are now considered too frail to travel. Neither the St. Luke Altarpiece nor The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, that unsurpassably bitter and poignant image of the corpse on the stone slab, can leave the Brera in Milan, and the Louvre will never lend the Madonna della Vittoria to another museum...
...buyers may soon be paying a price for the bitter trade tensions between the U.S. and Japan. Several Japanese auto manufacturers, including Honda and Nissan, said last week they were contemplating price hikes on some models sold in the U.S. Toyota has already raised the price of its redesigned 1992 Camry sedan by nearly...