Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Rudenstine was not yet with us, but those of us that were here have not forgotten the protests, the arguments, and the bitter conviction, either that protesting students were betraying them. Colin Powell's reputation was born out of this conflict. It was a reputation for competence, having competently carried out the will of our nation's elected Commander-in-Chief, having competently planned and executed the destruction of an ancient nation and the killing of 100,000 people of color. (Choose your preferred interpretation...
...struggle, Baird has aroused much controversy. Last Wednesday, the New York Times ran a story on Baird with a headline reading. "The Devil of Abortion." Baird called it "probably the worst bitter writing ever done on me." In the article, Baird is denounced as an advocate "hated by both sides...
...most profound dislocations since its resurrection from World War II hardly looks any longer like the all-devouring Godzilla of Western myth. Former French Prime Minister Edith Cresson's publicly voiced fear of Japan's "desire to conquer the world" sounds off-key, and American workers can stop their bitter jokes about how they will all be laboring for Japanese bosses...
...school and work but never to do anything else for himself and who expects his wife to pamper him the same way. Young women are putting off marrying the Fuyuhikos as long as they can. Older women who married Fuyuhiko types decades ago sometimes express their resentment at the bitter end: they insist that they be buried in individual graves rather than alongside their husband, a practice called shigo rikon -- divorce after death...
...research is suppressed. Investigators of the link between biology and crime find themselves caught in one of the most bitter | controversies to hit the scientific community in years. The subject has become so politically incorrect that even raising it requires more bravery than many scientists can muster. Critics from the social sciences have denounced biological research efforts as intellectually unjustified and politically motivated. African-American scholars and politicians are particularly incensed; they fear that because of the high crime rates in inner cities, blacks will be wrongly branded as a group programmed for violence...