Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's soccer team's game against Yale on Saturday was billed as an epic showdown between bitter rivals a la Ali-Frazier. It turned out to be a good old-fashioned butt-whipping more along the lines of Tyson-McNeely...
...this Philosophy 101 really worth the trouble? After following our moral imagination to its bitter logical end, don't we find ourselves forced to do what so many opinion leaders have been doing all along: judging Clinton without pity...
...could get all sides to come to the table. It is challenge enough to perfect the punishment to fit the crime but even harder to craft it in a way that satisfies all the needs for justice from those who would have to bless it: the vengeful Republicans, the bitter Democrats, the rebellious Clinton, the righteous Ken Starr. And that wasn't very likely. The only glimmer of hope from the Republican side was coming from moderates who were worried about a backlash against the next ugly data dump, a spectacle that was sure to get worse this week...
Those days are largely gone. The council today is a body in transition. Today's council is one on which Kamil E. Redmond '00 and I, bitter enemies during last year's campaign, now swap war stories over pizza. Today's council has much less to do with politics and much more to do with serving students. It is, I hope, a better council, a council that the students of this school asked for in the past election. But it is a council which needs a fresh wave of new blood. It needs students who stayed away in the past...
Americans support Clinton not because he is a "good ole boy," as pundit Noonan suggests, but because we appreciate someone who is basically good-willed. Of course, he's immature and downright stupid in what he did, but he's not a bitter, cynical, meanspirited person. Being good-willed is important to us, and we'll support anyone in high places who proves to have that virtue, especially if he works as hard as Clinton. The skeptics could learn a lot from this President, if only he would grow up. JOSEPH PETULLA Berkeley, Calif...