Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allied forces, including our own American troops, have become embroiled in a bitter struggle to liberate a captive people. The time to debate foreign policy has become the time to unite as a people behind our president, Congress and, most important, our brave American brothers and sisters who hope, just as we do, for a quick, dignified homecoming...
Czechoslovakia's President bluntly told his citizens to expect bitter hardship: "What a year ago seemed to be a dilapidated house is in fact a ruin." As the country rapidly moves to free markets, he admitted, "inflation will grow despite all measures designed to curb...
...School Committee has been paralyzed by its failure to hire a superintendent after dismissing the black incumbent, Laval Wilson, last February amid criticism that his management style was too aloof. The removal has sparked bitter charges of racism, and last week a leading candidate withdrew his name because of the continuing divisions. The council proposal would empower the mayor to hire and fire the superintendent. Critics worry, however, that such a move could open school doors even wider to political patronage...
BOSTON--Senate President William Bulger's top aide, Paul Mahoney, whose nomination for a Malden District Court judgeship touched off a bitter battle between his boss and Harvard Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, was unanimously confirmed for the job yesterday by the Governor's Council...
...After a bitter debate last night, concerns that Cambridge's large contingent of non-Christians might be offended by the public display of traditionally religious symbols prompted the City Council to nix a proposal to place a Christmas tree in the City Hall lobby...