Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days after George Bush interrupted his Kennebunkport vacation to announce his replacement for Justice Thurgood Marshall, the tiniest details of Clarence Thomas' background began to tumble out. They ranged from the lack of indoor plumbing in the house where he was born to the cigars he smokes to the bitter divorce from his first wife...
...Ministry of Health and the French Association of Hemophiliacs, was reportedly intended to ward off a blood shortage. But critics allege that the CNTS was trying to avoid the cost of purchasing heat-treated blood from foreign labs. National pride may have also played a role: with a bitter rivalry raging between French and American researchers over who discovered the AIDS virus, the French may have been loath to buy American-developed heat-treatment equipment...
Unfortunately, the Norman outpost has also become a symbol of broken promises, missed deadlines and unfulfilled potential. Two more radar systems, one set for installation near Cape Kennedy in Florida and another outside Washington, are still sitting in packing crates, victims of a bitter contract dispute between the agency and the manufacturer, Unisys. Meanwhile, virtually every other part of the modernization program is either over budget, technically flawed or facing stiff opposition in Washington. The program could cost up to $1 billion more than originally estimated and is not likely to be completed until 1998, several years later than planned...
...cover my tracks, but I'm constantly looking over my shoulder. I can't make any friends. You never know where or when they're going to come. I did a lot of damage when I was on that stand. A lot of families are really bitter. My wife disowned me. Nobody likes what I did. Nobody likes what I am. They would mutilate me in such a way, and they would want the whole world to see it to put fear in people. I took a whole family down, you know. But I'm trying to adjust...
...brooding, until one day they explode." Israeli officials say slightly higher suicide rates are endemic among new immigrants worldwide and expect the problem to decline now that most families have been reunited. Says Louis Rapoport, author of two books on the Ethiopian Jews: "You can always find some bitter cases but I think most of them have integrated extremely well...