Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous year struggled to find their way as the leaders of the team. A final loss against Dartmouth at the end of the regular season added salt to the Crimson's wounds, depriving them of sole possession of second place in the Ivies and bringing the season to a bitter conclusion...
...past month there have been two cases of children killing children: the school slaying in Arkansas, where two 14-year-old boys shot their classmates because they were bitter about romantic rejection, and the most recent case of Andrew Wurst in north-west Pennsylvania. Wurst, a 14-year-old middle school student, walked into the eighth-grade graduation dance, shot and killed a chaperoning science teacher and wounded three others. He is currently being charged as an adult, with criminal homicide, three counts each of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment and numerous gun and drug charges...
Brill has a good chance of ruffling some serious feathers among the media crowd. But he insists he won't be an avenging angel: "If your tone is bitter and scolding, the outsider looking in, that carries its own bias. You have no credibility." So Content will give out pats on the back as well as skewerings. "Not enough of the good stuff is appreciated because it's so swamped by the bad stuff," he says. "We're going to spend a lot of time finding the good stuff...
...will emerge from your FUP experience possessed by a burning desire to serve. Over the course of your four years, you will rise through the ranks of Phillips Brooks House, firing salvoes of bitter invective at University Hall. After you graduate, you will join the Peace Corps or City Year, eager to put yourself to good use. Soon, however, you will grow disgruntled and go to business school. Then you will become an "environmental consultant...
...nomination, they assured themselves that the Speaker's real goal was to exit gracefully from the House, a place he was no longer wanted. Newt's plans were so well known that Dick Armey, the majority leader, and Bob Livingston, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, have been waging a bitter battle of succession since February...