Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter blow," said coach Seamus Malin. "We though we were going to walk all over them. When you don't have cohesive teamwork, which we didn't have today, you tend to overcompensate individually," he said. "This results in players trying to do it alone, and usually ends up with the other team stealing the ball...
McGovern's attacks on Nixon have become increasingly sharp and bitter in recent days as the underdog Senator tries to lure the President out of the White House and onto the campaign trail...
...Century was as theologically and emotionally fixed as a God could be. Emily's mid-19th Century God was drowned in theological confusion, ministerial debacle and social disarray. Emily Dickinson readied herself before a confusing being who never made clear the emotion or the understanding he demanded. She was bitter and cynical about his elusiveness and her poems are themselves bitter, cynical and elusive. Mildred Dunnock would have done better to speak wrily, slowly and without hyperbole...
...relatively easy for such citizens to cast their ballots, many others have made the process discouraging. Among other things, they have announced that voters working in foreign countries could be liable for state income taxes. Now U.S. embassies and consulates abroad are fielding hundreds of bewildered and often bitter inquiries...
...arch-Archie is Alf Garnett, a spiteful, bitter dockside worker in Till Death Us Do Part, the model for Family. The fathers of Sanford and son are Steptoe and son, on the BBC series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe...