Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the bitter primary campaign, Hillary was called a conniving careerist eager to impose her communistic agenda upon the White House. At the Republican National Scarefest in Houston, Pat Robertson surmised that her goal was to sabotage the institution of marriage altogether. (That was right before he declared that feminists were really witches who want to kill their children...
Clinton's failure to seriously address the budget deficit should leave a bitter taste in the mouths of young Americans. No other issue will more directly and significantly affect our generation's future standard of living and our nation's economic sovereignty...
...torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace . . ." -- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address...
...homosexuals, passed, 55% to 45%. But Oregon's Measure 9, which sought to define homosexuality as "wrong, unnatural and perverse," went down to defeat, 44% to 56%. In Maryland voters approved a proposition guaranteeing the right to abortion. Iowa voters turned down an equal-rights amendment after a bitter fight that drew such national figures as Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Robertson to the state to lobby against...
None of the characters escape this familial upheaval because they sit, idle and frustrated, only to erupt at any sign of personal weakness in the others. It seems that every third line of the play begins with an apology for someone's biting, bitter outburst a line earlier. These scenes show volatile, yet sensitive, characters who have outlived their image of themselves. Years of family life have dulled them to each's hangups and worries about the rest of the group's behavior. For example, one brother's "worldly" advice turns out to be a jealous ploy to destroy...