Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even those of us who never knew him, Gabriel's death is a reminder of the bitter truth that is lost in the routine of late-night study sessions and marathon essay writing. Like so many of us, on December 20, Gabriel left Harvard to fly home for the vacation. He was accompanied by a friend and expected to see his parents on the other end. Gabriel is one of us and every one of us could have been...
...Tansu Ciller resigned, and the country's two secular, pro-Western center-right parties scrambled to form an unlikely coalition, after the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party won Turkey's parliamentary elections with 21% of the vote. Although Ciller's True Path Party and the Motherland Party have long been bitter foes, the victory by the Islamists was enough to spur the former enemies to try to cooperate in forming a government. All other major parties have rejected the idea of creating a coalition with Welfare...
...signing ceremony was hardly a joyous affair. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic grumbled that "my government is taking part in this agreement without any enthusiasm but as someone taking a bitter yet useful potion or medication." He openly questioned whether the unified Bosnia foreseen in the treaty will "truly materialize or will it simply remain something on paper?" Croatian President Franjo Tudjman traced the roots of the crisis in Bosnia back more than 15 centuries to "the breakup between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire," obviously implying that the wounds cannot be healed quickly. Bill Clinton, who presided...
Training exercises in Germany, held in bitter cold, have covered almost every conceivable situation: ambushes, sniper fire, 200 people identifying themselves as refugees trying to cross U.S. lines and begging for food and water. Be polite and non-confrontational but don't feed them, the troops are told. Some of the exercises have been carried out amid ear-shattering recorded noises of artillery fire. In land-mine-awareness lessons, troops are instructed never to take a short cut when navigating unfamiliar terrain and never to try to defuse a mine by themselves. Instead, they are told to mark it with...
That's a load of bitter wisdom for a boy to carry. So the author lets Jozska's father, a con man and survivor, speak the summation. Blaming the entire German nation, this fellow says wryly, "would be too German ... so collective responsibility is probably a myth." Here we imagine a grimace from the cafe intellectual. "Collective irresponsibility, on the other hand, certainly exists...