Word: bitterness
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...League champion this year receives an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, a fact not lost on the players. The more experienced athletes also live with the bitter memory of a loss to Dartmouth last year, a loss their coaches not infrequently reminded them of all week...
Undoubtedly bitter after being upset by Harvard in last year's ECAC quarterfinal round, the Saints should rebound to make another legitimate run at the league leaders this year...
Instead of saving money by raising fares--which Pedro called "a bitter pill the riders wouldn't be ready to swallow"--or cutting back on service, the MBTA decided to privatize, a move which it estimates will save $27 million annually...
...been more effective for the 94-year old Thurmond, who is almost a lock to defeat relative newcomer Elliott Close. "You just don't run a political novice against a political legend, no matter how old," Towle notes. In North Carolina, it's a somewhat different story. Helms' bitter, racially charged 1990 contest against former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt established Gantt as a legitimate contender. Since then, a coalition of politicians and civic leaders has registered tens of thousands of new voters -- many of them black. "It there is a pivot, it will be the dramatic increase in black voter...
...debate turned bitter when Kerry charged Weld with releasing 700 sex offenders from prison prematurely...