Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your hopes, plans and confidence are gone. You become bitter at the crowd of vets laughing, at your old coaches and at yourself. You look to your left and look to your right, and you see no one, nothing. So you look up. The sky is dark, the winds are accelerating and it's getting cold. You are tired and barely jogging. You stumble over your own mediocrity and join the suckers on the sideline. You stop running altogether. You have just arrived at Harvard College...
...resignation was prompted both by a budget that he believed failed Israel?s poor and by the stagnation in Israeli peace efforts ? the foreign minister had made no effort to conceal his frustration at Netanyahu?s disregard for Israel?s commitments in the peace process. Beyer says a bitter personal rivalry between the two men also prompted Levy to choose a critical moment to pull the plug on Netanyahu?s government...
...aids patients write to thank him for the inspiration they get from A New Life, a song from Jekyll & Hyde. And as for those critics? Friends send him copies of early bad reviews of Puccini and Verdi operas to make him feel better. "There's a tendency to get bitter and cynical, but I'm not going to do that," he says. "I've got too much...
...Democrat. He became a local prosecutor in 1980 at age 27--the youngest in state history. But in the early 1990s, he sensed changes in the political winds, critics say, and switched parties. "Charlie Condon will be anything that 51% of the population wants him to be," says a bitter Dick Harpootlian, a Columbia lawyer who lost to Condon in 1994. "He's now helping move South Carolina faster toward the 19th century than toward the 21st...
...bitter fruit of George Bush's decision not to finish off Saddam is with us today: the suffering and death of thousands of Kurds and Arabs, constant subterfuge and concealment of Iraqi efforts to rearm with terrorist weapons, infliction of deprivation that Saddam blames on the U.N. sanctions, and a litany of other atrocious deeds. No wonder the Israelis, realists by bitter experience, are once again buying gas masks. Former President Bush, like Macbeth, has "scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it," with predictable consequences. DAVID H. SPODICK Northborough, Mass...