Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't look bitter or lost that last week, didn't look--concussed, as big losers of past history have. He just looked like a man who was enacting a campaign rather than waging it. And I stood in the back of the hall and thought, He's losing with grace because losing is something he knows how to do. I thought of the old poem Invictus...
Pittsburgh--you failed to sell out a playoff game. Houston--I'm still bitter about those horizontally-striped uniforms from the eighties. Seattle--you beat the Yankees too much. Milwaukee--you're just plain pathetic...
Last season the Harvard men's water polo team walked away from Blodgett Pool with bitter memories after a season-ending 9-8 overtime loss to Brown...
...outside suppliers. The No. 1 automaker uses in-house labor to build a whopping 70% of the parts that go into its vehicles, far more than its Detroit rivals. But the U.A.W. wants to save as many jobs as it can at GM, which could make the talks turn bitter...
...compromise comes on the heels of a tumultuous year that included bitter public criticism by PBHA President Andrew J. Ehrlich '96-'97 of the appointment of Judith H. Kidd as the assistant dean for public service, and a threat by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III to kick PBHA off campus...