Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outsider's bitter view of Harvard is nothing new for the people of Boston. It is rooted in an age old tension between what Boston College professor Thomas O'Conner has called the aristocratic, Protestant, Harvard educated Brahmin class, and the Irish, Italian, Catholic immigrant class. The late Thomas "Tip" O'Neil, a classic Irish politician, former Speaker of the House and Cambridge resident, was found of exploiting the gulf between the Cambridge working class and the Cambridge academic class. He often boasted that the only relationship he ever had with Harvard was a summer job mowing lawns...
...battle has been bitter...
Dole's impressive victories last night were enough to drive several rival moderate candidates out of the race and could perhaps propel him past conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan, who last night vowed to hang on until the bitter...
CALL IT THE FLIPPER FLIP-FLOP. A squabble over attempts to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act is forging some strange alliances even as it opens up a bitter rift in the environmental movement. In the end, it may be business interests--once the villains in the piece but now terrified of a boycott by dolphin-loving consumers--that decide the matter...
...January left us, and with it exams, the start of a bright new semester loomed. I use "loomed" because, even though I believed only brightness could follow bitter January, "overarching melancholy" instead fills the emptiness (as a friend put it melodramatically). But why melancholy, in this Yard so coveted and new dining hall so extravagant...