Word: bitter
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...dissenters, in other words, have moved toward conventional Christianity, except for continuing to reject Christ's divinity. For his part, Franz has not become a bitter Watch Tower antagonist. "There is no life outside the organization" is all he will say about the pain of his shunning. But other ex-Witnesses have launched a barrage of protests, publications and lawsuits. These dissidents contend that roughly 1 million people have left the Watch Tower ranks over the past decade. The Witnesses report that they are still growing, thanks to nonstop recruiting. Still, that success may not go on for long...
Report of the disease-carrying mosquitoes circulated the globe earlier this month alter the Soviet magazine "Literary Gazette" contended that the CIA was funding a project to use radiation and genetic science of breed the pests. The Gazette added that several persons had contracted yellow fever after having been bitter by strange mosquitoes. The Diamondback, the university's campus news paper, reported this month...
Though he said he enjoys teaching greatly. Cox stressed that he has no choice in deciding when he should retire since federal laws suggest "because I have reached 70, I have become presumptively senile." But Cox said he is not bitter about being forced to reduce his classroom time, adding that when there is a rule, "you have to live with...
Adding to De Lorean's problems, word leaked out that company executives last month voted themselves "performance bonuses" of some $800,000. Although the extra pay was rescinded after a public protest, the bonuses nevertheless became a bitter issue during an acrid debate last week in the House of Commons. Conservative M.P. Alan Clark indignantly claimed that the government had been "subsidizing the extravagant life-style of a lot of American...
...sent to live with a long-suffering aunt and an uncle (Bernie McInerney) bent on incest. When she strikes out on her own at 18, her luck with men is not conspicuously better. Eventually she weds a local Lothario (Terrance O'Quinn) who treats her to the bitter delights of being the wife of an alcoholic. Only her young son solaces her, and she counsels him that the race of life is not to the swift and the strong but to the survivor...