Word: bitterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard 1. The margin of defeat was nothing compared to the three last-minute brawls which punctuated it. I sat there, watching guys I knew squaring off at the blue line, listening to the bitter chants of "Harvard Sucks" ring the Garden rafters, wondering how all of this could be guised in Beanpot garb...
...loss was a bitter one for the Crimson. The Princeton team was tired after coming off a defeat at the hands of Yale the day before. As Merner said, "We should have beaten them. We were sloppy at key times and failed to take advantage of our opportunities...
...invasion came, observers expect that the Yugoslavs could and would put up a bitter fight. When the Soviets led the Warsaw Pact forces into Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Yugoslav government as a precaution began training civilians in guerrilla tactics. Some civilian groups in their zeal to protect their country even offered to help pay for arms purchased for their units from Western Europe. There
...Comedians contains just one star other than its central comics, and she is only a walk-on. It needs no more. The cast is perfect, and the comedy unfailingly original. There are no libidinous or abusive producers, no hysterically egomaniac directors, not even a failed novelist making a rich, bitter livelihood by writing for the screen. The author has been a novelist (Hard Rain Falling, The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan); he has also been a movie and TV working stiff, and what he is offering here is an accurate, lightly ironic record of the laid-back camaraderie animating...
...Administration also pointedly paid court to the Soviets' bitter foes, the Chinese. While on a trip to Peking that had been scheduled some months before, Defense Secretary Harold Brown suggested that, despite their obvious differences, the U.S. and China might seek "complementary actions" to counter Soviet expansionism. Brown announced that the U.S. would provide Peking with a ground station for receiving signals from satellites ?the sort of high technology that is being denied to the Soviets. Further, Brown and his hosts indicated that they would hold future talks on military affairs, which signaled Washington's interest in creating...