Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...western half of the enclave, is shy, soft spoken and uncomfortable around foreigners. Jalal Talabani, who controls the east, is a garrulous jet-setter who mixes well at embassy parties. The only thing the two have in common is a long-standing hatred for each other. In an increasingly bitter showdown that has turned Kurd against Kurd, they are, says a Western diplomat in Ankara, willing to "risk committing national suicide...
...have a fantasy. Someday I will be old and bitter. [more bitter - Ed.] Eternity will stretch out before me and I will have nothing to fill my days but the depositing of Social Security checks. (If there's any Social Security left, the subject of yet another letter to the Prez). Then I will not have to polite. Then I can give free reign to my desires and complain to my heart's content. I will spend my golden years writing crotchety letters to Corporate America. Just the thought of it gives me a buzz...
...prove that, however, local land-control advocates must wrest power away from the feds-and that can lead to bitter confrontations. In New Mexico's Otero County, 600 angry people packed a civic center recently to rail against Washington and plan a strategy for combatting the Endangered Species Act. Otero has now formed a public lands committee to fight for its rights, and has hired a Los Angeles-based legal group, the Individual Rights Foundation, to press its claims in court. In Idaho's Lemhi County, 2,500 citizens turned out at a local fairground on a sub-zero...
...bitter fruits of their campaign lie scattered across the roads of Algiers and the surrounding countryside: burned-out carcasses of buses, cars, buildings and factories. The fundamentalists consider anything or anyone connected with the "infidel state" to be a legitimate target. Miles of telephone poles lie felled. A few months ago, the rebels began booby-trapping destroyed vehicles--and even corpses--with explosives...
...despite the festive atmosphere, for somethe completion of what has perhaps been theirgreatest undertaking was a bitter-sweet moment...