Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, there was nothing like it in the history of the world: the Empire State Building. Rising from midtown Manhattan during the bitter dawn of the Great Depression, its 6,500 windows, 10 million bricks and then record 102 stories became an instant urban icon. A movie encounter with King Kong in 1933 only added to the building's reputation...
After a decade in which thousands of mining jobs disappeared, many Logan County workers face a bitter choice: stay put and live hand-to-mouth, or migrate. Among the thousands who have left is 60-year-old Eugene Jones, who was laid off in September 1990. Like many of his generation, Jones never went past the sixth grade. "I can write my name and my address and stuff like that, but I cannot spell hardly anything," he says. He now lives in Virginia and has been searching for work around the region for eight months. Recently he drove his pickup...
...sure, the old saga of unexpected wealth, envy and rancor has not been abolished. In Philadelphia last summer, bitter feuding erupted between Danny Hagan, 28, and Margie Moore, 27, co-workers at an engineering company, over Hagan's slice of the $17 million winning ticket he bought for Moore. The battle ended last month in a sealed settlement and a shredded lifetime friendship...
...tone of his opening statement was so bitter, in fact, that many listeners thought he was leading up to a withdrawal of his candidacy. But he stopped short of that, apparently determined to clear his name even if he could not salvage his place on the court. "I would have preferred an assassin's bullet to this kind of living hell," he said the next day. But still, he insisted, he would "rather die than withdraw...
Millions watched a spectacle of shocking charges and bitter denials, but where was the truth...