Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday's loss, it seemed Harvard was battling not just first-place Princeton but also Lady Luck, who this season has been among the Crimson's most bitter foes. Despite generating good shots under and around the basket, Harvard was consistently unable to put the ball through...
...while, getting through it was made easier by the same bitter partisanship that's now keeping the trial alive. As the Democrats responded to what they saw as a Republican onslaught, keeping the caucus together didn't call for L.B.J.-style strong-arm tactics. And that's lucky, because squeeze plays aren't Daschle's style. With a caucus that includes unreconstructed liberals like Paul Wellstone of Minnesota as well as unpredictable bulls like Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, old-school cajoling just isn't terribly effective. So Daschle holds hands instead...
...fine feeling between Lott and Daschle may not last. Before the impeachment trial comes to a close, bitter questions must be resolved. Will Republicans vote to release the videotapes? Will they end up siding with the House managers and bring live witnesses into the well of the Senate? "Our Republican colleagues are going to have to weigh that this is becoming a Republican trial," says Daschle. "We've tried to be as helpful as we can, but there comes a time when you have to draw a line...
...first place do we want government money invested in private companies? The world has had 50 years of bitter experience with the failure and sheer destructiveness of nationalization. After World War II, the British Labour Party seized the "commanding heights" of the economy, nationalizing everything big in sight: coal and steel and rails and utilities. By 1980 Britain was the sick man of Europe...
...Tomas kneels before Anna as a communicant receiving the Eucharist, or a child before its mother. Love is a sacrament of which neither man is worthy. Henrik and Tomas are really complementary halves of one weak man: the Bergman man. Henrik tastes the truth as if it were a bitter plum, and the corners of his mouth tighten in rage and impotence...