Word: bitterness
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...MUST HAVE BEEN A MEMORABLE DAY, the one that Louis Farrakhan recalled recently in his newspaper, The Final Call. A bitter day of looking on from the sidelines, a day to hear a proud old man's oath. "I was visiting with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as we watched [Martin Luther King's] 1963 March on Washington," Farrakhan wrote of his now deceased mentor. "He said that he saw too much frivolity, joking and a picnic atmosphere. He said, 'One day, Brother, I will call for a March on Washington...
...next step is to defeat a good Ivy League school, as in Yale this Saturday. Not only are the Bulldogs more skilled (they even defeated preseason favorite and bitter Harvard rival Brown) than anyone Harvard has played except maybe Cornell and Colgate, but the intensity level for that game is certainly much higher than what yesterday's match showed...
...certain sense, it is entirely understandable that our culture should be such a materialistic one. When it comes to spiritual matters, we encounter bitter disagreement. Some of us believe in God, and some of us don't. Among those of us who do believe in God's existence, there are even more arguments about the proper way in which to worship him. For better or worse (perhaps worse), agreement on such deeply personal questions cannot be dictated by government in the United States...
...world of sports went on. And although what happened back on the sports pages is hardly life and death many sweet and bitter moments have been played out on diamonds, courts and fields across the country. While perhaps sometimes overshadowed by events in the courtroom, it has been a memorable 16 months in the sports world...
Effectively cutting loose the poor was just part of an effort by the Democrats to remake themselves in the face of a Republican juggernaut that is now racing through Medicare. As they prepare for a bitter battle over that crown jewel of the Great Society, Democrats are determined to refashion themselves as defenders of the middle class against the G.O.P. raiders. It was the foul mood of the middle class that made welfare a losing issue for Democrats. And for the same reason, with pocketbook issues dominating the final weeks of the congressional budget fight, the latest items...