Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week's vote, a giant step up from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked the bitter resignation of Achille Occhetto, leader of the neocommunist Democratic Party of the Left, who, despite capturing 19% of the vote, was blamed for blowing the party's seemingly unbeatable lead in March...
...estimated 15,000 to 20,000 soldiers of the R.P.F., it has been a bitter homecoming. Many were born or have lived most of their life in exile, their families driven from the former Belgian colony after the Hutu ousted the Tutsi elite from power in 1959. In neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Uganda, they suffered the indignities of the stateless: scapegoats for the political crises of the day. Through it all, the exiles saw their homeland as a mythical country of verdant hillsides and crystal lakes, whose people and terrain they could glimpse only in textbooks. "I didn...
Meanwhile, the separate bitter dispute between Los Angeles and its police force over new contract terms intensified when hundreds of L.A. police staged a slowdown by calling in sick...
...bleak academic market and the aftereffects of the recession have left many graduate students--some after enduring more than a decade of graduate school--jobless, bitter and disappointed...
...Crimson then ventured out west to the state that made the game famous, California, and got a bitter taste of what first-rate collegiate water polo can be like, finishing seventh of 12 teams in the Pomona Invitational March 26-27. The team demolished Occidental in the first round, 18-1, and beat Cal-Poly in the second, 8-7, but then fell hard to heavies UC-San Diego, 15-4, and Pomona, 11-5. Dropped to the loser's bracket, the team finished the tournament with two convincing wins over San Luis Obispo and Occidental...