Word: bittersweet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court in Uniondale, N.Y., last week, Sutton partook of a bittersweet victory. U.S. District Court Judge George C. Pratt ordered the opening of heretofore sealed documents gathered for a multibillion-dollar lawsuit by some 20,000 Viet Nam veterans and their relatives against Dow Chemical and four other companies that manufactured Agent Orange. One of the substances present in the herbicide, used in the Viet Nam War to defoliate enemy crops and jungle hiding places, is the dangerous chemical dioxin. The documents reveal that Dow officials had knowledge even before the mid-1960s that exposure to dioxin might cause people...
Ordinary Poles, too, began to act like themselves, as if reinvigorated by the Pope's presence. At curbsides or huddled together in windows or on balconies, their faces reflected sullen amazement, fearful wonder and, finally, bittersweet joy. In an extraordinary pageant of the spirit, they gathered a million strong for Mass in a Warsaw stadium. When John Paul went to Czestochowa a million more covered the grassy slopes around the Jasna Gora monastery. Some Poles held banners in red and white, indiscriminately mixing religion and politics in messages such as HOPE-SOLIDARITY and YOU ARE THE REAL FATHER...
...perhaps it was Aspen that was not what it used to be. Rather than dealing with our loss of an imaginable future-or, rather, our yielding it to the futurologists with their projections, megatrends and future shocks-the conference evaded the issue it raised. Two programs offered escapes into bittersweet nostalgia. One was an enchanting evocation with slides, film clips and live theater of "Vienna: A Moment of Greatness." Another was a seminar on "Designing the Corporation's Future," which returned to the prescription of the first Aspen conference and of every one since: that a designer should...
...diminished pulse beat of a love gone sour, the anxiety beneath male bravado, the hum of appliances in a lonely woman's flat. One must listen closely; Aznavour's charisma is implosive. He does not play to the audience so much as he admits it to his bittersweet, no-illusions world...
Slight as it is, the plot is yet sturdy enough for Rodgers and Hart to hang on it half a dozen of their most charming songs. There's a Small Hotel is the best known, but there are also the bittersweet Glad to Be Unhappy, the witty Too Good for the Average Man, the wise and worldly The Heart Is Quicker Than the Eye and the bluesy Quiet Night...