Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heading off potential opposition. Bad blood has been shed over the Fogg and the Sackler before, as Cuno acknowledged when he referred to the University's original proposal to link the Fogg and the Sackler with a bridge over Broadway at the time the Sackler was built. Because of bitter community opposition that plan was never completed...
...young child I tasted the bitter fruit of segregation. I felt the sting of discrimination," he said...
...Crimson beat all the teams it needed to beat, but lost to all four of its ranked opponents--each time ending the game with the feeling that it did not quite leave it all out on the field. That unfulfilled potential, in addition to a bitter loss to Dartmouth that cost the seniors their fourth straight Ivy League title, has Harvard gunning for revenge...
...struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness and multiple wives, and he insists on river baptisms though crocodiles lurk in the river. Fittingly, though he does...
...twins, Leah and Adah, are the author's most vivid characters. Leah is a thoughtful, idealistic beauty who at first idolizes her father, then sees through his pious bluster. Adah, crippled at birth, is a wry, inward-turning genius who refuses to speak but silently reshapes the world in bitter palindromes: "amen enema," and "evil, all; its sin is still alive...