Word: bitter
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Harvard used an early second-half surge to overcome a characteristically slow start and hand Providence (2-8) a bitter defeat. The match featured heated physical confrontations that became more frequent as the game progressed...
...your cities burned," something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Bereft of a divine warrant for their well-being, Jews were at the mercy of their neighbors' worst instincts. In a remarkably frank assessment, the Greek Orthodox bishop of Jerusalem tells Feiler, "What the church did with Abraham was bitter and cruel...
...question of whether CID followed this plan is one answered with bitter acrimony...
Harvard met a much more difficult opponent in Ivy rival Princeton, who was seemingly unchallenged in its 8-2 victory. The loss was a bitter way to end the opening day of the tournament, which had started out so well for Harvard...
...those of the more overtly political George Grosz. But he had a magisterial distance few others could match. Included among the cabaret artists and chimneysweeps in his 1922 Berlin Voyage series, for instance, are two drawings, each titled The Disenchanted (numbered I and II). One shows well-dressed and bitter burghers with the nationalistic newspaper Die Zeitung; the second shows socialists yawning over a call to rise up from Spartacist leader Karl Liebknecht, who had been murdered by police in 1919. Beckmann, never a man for the barricades, seemed to be treating politics as just one more revealing but ultimately...