Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blockmates is looking at the fashion industry, another at the State Department, but each is concerned with making sure she has the best and most challenging internship for her summer. Often the search turns bitter with two friends applying for the same public interest or advocacy...
...because it is a plea against racism and injustice. It is a song with a social conscience, and not empty sensuality. It also makes a great use of the acoustic guitar, unlike most of the other songs on the album, which use a electric pop. The lyrics are bitter, and Smith's vocals are emotionally wrenching--he reverts from sadness to anger to thoughtfulness to despair and even happiness, while his deep, hoarse voice conveys all those feelings beautifully. "What Must I do Now?" is a breath of fresh air on Connected, as it is a serious song that demands...
...Harvard men's volleyball team waited until the bitter end to make its move, staving off nine match points in the third and decisive game before falling, 15-9, 16-14, 17-15 to the Springfield College Chiefs last night at the Malkin Athletic Center...
There was something surrealist in the swiftness of the last catastrophe--a drama made doubly bitter by the fact that most Americans had made their emotional peace with Viet Nam. The P.O.W.s had come home, the last soldiers had withdrawn. The nation turned, not happily, to other preoccupations--to Watergate and to coping with recession and inflation. But since Viet Nam had deceived Americans so many times before, it was perhaps fitting that it should be the only war they would have to lose twice...
While Suharto has resisted the bitter medicine of the IMF program, Japan is deaf to foreign calls for deeper tax cuts to rouse its long dormant economy, traditionally the engine of growth for the Pacific Rim. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Congress last week that the Japanese economy was "sinking." Asked whether Japan was doing enough to stimulate the economy, the usually circumspect Greenspan replied, "No, I think...