Word: bittersweet
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...read Gibbs' wonderful prose on this historic election, I felt the same surge of emotion, now bittersweet, that I experienced at age 10 on hearing Martin Luther King's thrilling "I Have a Dream" speech or Robert F. Kennedy's powerful utopian oratory. It dawned on me that Americans in our hearts are idealists who truly believe that we are all equal. We have waited decades for a leader to touch our hearts the way that King and Kennedy did. Obama has galvanized the American electorate by reminding us who we really are as a people, by touching our hearts...
...This season, with a new name and a team built around young, homegrown talent, the Rays finished first in the division and went on to the World Series, where they eventually lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, a bittersweet ending to a successful season...
...After bagging back-to-back Ivy League titles in its sophomore and junior campaigns, the team’s Class of 2009 has a lot of experience on which to fall back as it gears up for a three-peat. But the bittersweet ending to last season proves that looking back is both a blessing and a curse...
...hope this letter finds you well. We wanted to take this time to thank all the wonderful people who helped us last week. It was a very bittersweet week, but now we understand why Peter referred to Harvard and Adams House as his home, because we too felt at home here with everyone...
...final day of a history-making, 21-month-long presidential campaign turned out to be a bittersweet one for Barack Obama, as he learned that the white grandmother who had helped raise him had died in her sleep, and would not live to see whether her grandson would become the nation's first African-American president. Madelyn Dunham "was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America," Obama told supporters on a rain-sodden field at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "They aren't seeking the limelight. All they're trying...