Word: bitter
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...been fired or disciplined for mistakes or incompetent execution in Iraq, including Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, the Army general in command in Iraq at the time of Abu Ghraib, who is being allowed to retire quietly. Officers who have seen the war in Iraq up close are often bitter about the get-along, go-along culture in Washington."I agree with General Dannatt," says one senior U.S. officer, but adds that to do so publicly would finish his career: "I would be sidelined like Shinseki." Dannatt, whatever his real intentions, at least spoke up and went on record. "Honesty...
...never have it. How does he get over that crushing disappointment? The greatest achievement of Moses' life is not the plagues or the Red Sea or any of that stuff. The greatest achievement is that he comes to the end of his days not angry at God, not bitter over not having gotten what he deserves in life. And it's in that way that I think Moses can be a model for us. TIME: Is Overcoming Life's Disappointments an academic or personal book? Kushner: This was a very personal book. There were parts where it was almost painful...
...masses in a blue-collar housing estate, dependent for a time on handouts from friends, of which he deservedly has many (the abandoned boy that Moss sheltered decades ago, now married and middle class, returns to make his old benefactor a gift of almost $30,000). Far from being bitter about his circumstances, Moss merely notes that it was "especially pleasing" to realize that his neighbors on the estate were the descendants of squatters resettled in housing programs that he had once extolled as the government's spin supremo...
...metal around campus. The real test will come when Cambridge enters its winter months. To continue running in the sub-zero temperatures, the vegetable oil will have to be preheated to 180 degrees just to remain in liquid form. But advocates of the project are undaunted by the impending bitter cold. “The prospects are looking good” for the winter, Foote said confidently. “We’ll just have to wait and see.” Freshmen dining in Annenberg, although oblivious to behind-the-scenes change, said they welcomed the project...
...Converts to Islam Re "Allah's Recruits" [aug. 28], the attraction of Islam is a bitter nostalgia for past times when women could be oppressed with arrogant impunity. The motivation is the same for fundamentalists of all times, places and denominations, whether their symbols are crescent moons or crosses. Denise Bonhomme Sunnyvale, California...