Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reinvigorated public debate in the Baltics, inspiring proposals for everything from local convertible currencies and free economic zones to the establishment of independent relations with foreign countries. If such dreams and hopes result in nothing but more empty words, the return of old frustrations will be all the more bitter...
After two bitter rivals play a hard-fought game, each side usually spends the off-season staring at the schedule, anxiously anticipating the next meeting...
...theories of "ecodynamics" and our future cultural evolution have been written off as too vague and unfocused to be of much use. In Wilson's case, the debate over the power of genes, culture and sociobiology still smolders, especially here at Harvard; a decade ago it raged, and bitter (often unfair) words appeared against...
JOSEPH KENNEDY--As the heir to what is regarded as the first family of Massachusetts politics, the freshman Congressman won a tough primary fight in 1986, beating out a crowded field of candidates in a bitter campaign where the inexperienced Kennedy was generally considered a political lightweight. Shortly after the election, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics sponsored a week-long seminar for incoming congressmen. Kennedy was described by participants as inattentive, impatient and flippant. After skipping a speech by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Voloker to attend a Boston Celtics Game, Kennedy told the press that "I didn...
...when the Big Red was dead--trailing, 17-7, to Harvard Saturday afternoon at The Stadium and showing no signs of life--Cochrane, wearing two black gloves that kept his hands dry from the bitter Cambridge rain, brought his smile to the field...