Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over campus, yet some lunatics still undermine sleep, calling for a 24-hour Harvard library. Do they not realize the transparency of their plot? It it succeeds, sleeping will indeed be tantamount to conceding defeat in the undergraduate rat race. SIESTA will fight this pernicious evil to the bitter...
...member at the New York Daily News, we would like to applaud the decision made by Out of Town News not to carry the newspaper while it is being put out by replacement workers ("Out of Town to Stop Selling Daily News," January 23). We are of course still bitter that this newsstand decided to sell The News for almost a month before being convinced by the Newspaper Guild of New York to refuse this "scabloid." Our father, Joel Burstein, a lifelong newspaperman in New York using the name Joel Burton, worked at The News from 1966 until the management...
...help him accept that death without the peace of oblivion is China's lot. The manifestations of that horror are myriad, and Zhang, whose 1985 novel Half of Man Is Woman shocked the People's Republic with its explicit -- by Chinese standards -- discussion of sex, details them with bitter black humor. Lined up for execution, the main character sees his condemned colleagues fall dead in a hail of bullets. Only he and a young girl remain alive, spared by blanks and cynical commissars. Nearly dead from starvation, he is hauled into a makeshift morgue and buried in a pile...
Much of Egypt's vast population of 55 million survives barely above the level of subsistence and would seem an ideal constituency for Saddam. Yet notwithstanding the presence of radical and fundamentalist sentiment, his appeal there is limited. One reason is the bitter experience of thousands of Egyptian laborers maltreated in Iraq at the hands of their employers; hundreds are believed to have been killed. Another reason may be the strong leadership of Hosni Mubarak. By supporting the U.S. and Saudi Arabia against Saddam, Mubarak won considerable financial benefits. Both nations have forgiven billions in Egyptian debts, for example...
IFIND it a little disturbing myself that I agree more with President Bush than Bernard Sanders. I find it even more disturbing that my most painful and bitter argument was with the friend who drove me to a 1989 Washington D.C. choice rally. The dilemma facing liberals who approve of the military action is that we are turning against our visceral anti-war feelings...