Word: bittersweetness
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George Bush is giving 1991 a bittersweet goodbye kiss. He's lost 40 points in his ratings and gained 10 times that many gray hairs. But he's got his feet up on the desk in an Oval Office flooded with December sunshine, and for 30 minutes he is remembering when he played the ultimate chess game -- Desert Storm -- and won brilliantly. The afterglow of that triumph has faded now, but not his granite conviction that what he did was right. Back a year, the tension was real and he talked more at night with Barbara and hugged his grandchildren...
...Sutherland, it was a bittersweet homecoming. Even as he learned that his 88-year-old father-in-law had died just two days earlier, he received word that one of his three daughters was about to give birth. Sutherland seemed forgiving of his captors, allowing, "I don't think they really thoroughly understand what they were doing to us, putting those chains back on our legs every day." Although he appeared healthy, the discovery of an ulcer at week's end delayed his return...
...past two seasons we haven't even had the chance to win the title at this point in the season," Harvard senior Greg Belsher said. "It's a bittersweet victory...
Last Saturday was a bittersweet day for the Harvard football team...
...this last topic, Woolf waxes bittersweet. She attacks with venomous humor the state of affairs that allows men's colleges to sup off partridges and wine and dwell in marble halls, while women's colleges are unable to afford anything better than beef, water and bricks. Here and elsewhere in the play, Woolf emphasizes that pure intelligence is not enough for women who want to succeed in life. They also must know how to struggle...