Word: bitterness
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...accept America with the bitter and the sweet," he said. "America is the greatest country in the world...
...didn't look bitter or lost that last week, didn't look--concussed, as big losers of past history have. He just looked like a man who was enacting a campaign rather than waging it. And I stood in the back of the hall and thought, He's losing with grace because losing is something he knows how to do. I thought of the old poem Invictus...
Then he looked up, recognized me as a member of his press corps and broke into a grin. "Arrrggghhh! Brought your homework," he joshed, addressing me for the first time. I was aware of the Dole stereotype: brilliant mind, bitter man. But here he seemed charming; he had a sparkle in his hazel eyes, a winning way with his deadpan wit. I had respected him, in some ways admired him, but with the sweetness and humor that emerged from that moment, I liked...
Pittsburgh--you failed to sell out a playoff game. Houston--I'm still bitter about those horizontally-striped uniforms from the eighties. Seattle--you beat the Yankees too much. Milwaukee--you're just plain pathetic...
Last season the Harvard men's water polo team walked away from Blodgett Pool with bitter memories after a season-ending 9-8 overtime loss to Brown...