Word: bitter
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...Dylan, who had become Joan Baez's lover, was eyeing that place for himself. In 1965 Dylan recorded Positively 4th Street, a bitter screed that renounced the folk scene he had come from, and by extension Farina, and embraced rock 'n' roll...
...London headquarters, Conservative leader William Hague dramatically and unexpectedly announced his resignation, leaving a stunned party to find itself a new head. Hours earlier, he had conceded his party's defeat after a night of results he found "deeply disappointing." Labour's second successive landslide victory was a bitter blow to Hague, whose passion for politics began in his early teens and whose dazzling career in the party - he was an M.P. at 27, a cabinet minister at 34 - suggested he might one day move into 10 Downing St. Back in 1997, after the Tories' first shattering defeat...
...course, part of being a fan stems from playing sports. When I was a boy-back when Bob Saget was a clean-cut dad instead of a foul-mouthed and bitter man-there was one thing I wanted to be when I grew up: a baseball player. But by the time the wheat was beginning to separate from the Little League chaff, I was firmly established as chaff. I had trouble hitting to the outfield, and my fastball topped out in the low sixties with a penchant for hitting the backstop...
...word I’ve been telling everyone [about graduation] is bittersweet,” Turner says. “There’s a feeling of sadness and overwhelming nostalgia--that’s the bitter part, of course. The sweet part is the excitement, the feeling that you’re so ready for the world...
...loss of the Grafton Street Bar and Restaurant is particularly bitter as this small business was overwhelmed by the corporate world as an expanding Cambridgeport Bank takes over Grafton’s space on Mass. Ave. The demise of Harvard’s bar scene is not the only signal of the Square’s gentrification and landlords’ insistence on the high rent chain stores can afford...