Word: bitterness
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...Still, Blair was the biggest loser. He has already announced this term will be his last. Wounded by the Iraq war and a campaign that culminated in bitter attacks on his character, he just limped across the finish line. Instead of bestowing a new mandate upon him, the election brought difficult questions: Can a man so furiously branded a liar resume normal political leadership? How much legislation can Blair pass, given that his parliamentary caucus is reduced and no longer views him as a vote-winning magician? Where, precisely, is the tipping point after which power will start cascading...
Rather than end the season with the bitter taste of a fourteen-game slide, the Crimson derived a measure of dignity and a sense of hope for the year ahead from the frosh-powered victory...
...atmosphere, meanwhile, was heart-warmingly loose and familiar. These players knew the bitter taste of adversity, the sting of injury, and the cruel hand of fate, but still put their hearts into preparing for the season’s final four games. The seniors present—left fielder Lauren Stefanchik and senior Annie Dell’Aria—joked and smiled with the rest, even in the full knowledge that they would be part of the first class during Allard’s tenure to graduate without an Ivy crown...
...Kumin says that she and her Radcliffe classmates still harbor some hard feelings toward the University that—in her words—“swallowed” their alma mater in a 1971 quasi-merger. “We feel quite bitter about it,” she says...
...justices’ move is the latest development in the bitter courtroom battle over the Solomon Amendment, a law initially passed by Congress in 1995 that requires schools to give military recruiters access to students as a condition for receiving federal funding. A Philadelphia-based Third Circuit panel ruled in November that the statute violated schools’ First Amendment rights...