Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With both parents typically holding down jobs, home life had been reduced to a mad scramble at the end of the day to cram in shopping, laundry, cooking, ; mending -- and, oh, yes, communication. Quality time had become a bitter cliche: a concentrated, forced effort to make up for irretrievable moments. Children could not be expected to schedule all their needs in a prime-time slot. Adults found they had to work harder to hire people to do the work they had no time for: raking the leaves, fixing the porch, taking care of the kids and even cooking meals...
...years, American weapons technology was the butt of bitter jokes, taxpayer complaints and congressional investigations. That was before the world watched video footage of U.S. smart bombs threading the eye of Iraq's military needle...
...book is lush verbally. There is something tidal -- that is to say, patiently inexorable -- in its rhythms. And as Tom Wingo, protagonist of all the movies Streisand is sweeping along on the imagistic current she has unleashed, Nick Nolte gives a force-of-nature performance -- shrewd and gullible, bitter and innocent, bigger than life but still in touch with...
...photojournalists fanned out over the Emerald Isle for a period of 24 hours. The resulting contrasts are lyric enough for poetry (brides and nuns, musicians and farmers) or too bitter for words (glowering British soldiers in Belfast, homeless Dubliners sheltering in an abandoned...
...want no nukes whatsoever on their soil. But it is by no means certain that the republics can agree, among themselves and with what remains of Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin government, on any program for actually achieving those aims before the momentum of dissolution leads to far different results: bitter squabbles over who controls the strategic weapons and a possible leakage of tactical warheads into irresponsible hands...