Word: bitter
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...going to stick with it until the bitter end or a happy one,” Solano said on Tuesday, while sitting at her desk among the store’s 15,000 titles. “The store has to exist. It’s not so much about the business but about the value of the word...
...traditions that accompany it and using their advertising to turn the exchange of gifts into an obligation rather than a gesture of love or friendship, they detract from the holiday and from the spirit of the season. It’s enough to make even an eggnog latte taste bitter...
...bitter end to Harvard’s four-game win streak, and it wasn’t a loss soon to be forgotten...
...home state of Texas in the congressional elections: a rule change so he won't automatically have to step aside as majority leader if an Austin grand jury indicts him in a campaign-finance probe. But despite a public show of solidarity, Republican Congressmen tell TIME there was a bitter debate behind closed doors over whether to change the rule for the man known as "the Hammer," and it has left some Republicans angry and concerned that their party looks arrogant. During a private caucus last Wednesday, more than 200 G.O.P. lawmakers argued for four hours over a proposal...
...between rebels and government-backed militias has left 70,000 dead and more than 2 million homeless in what Washington calls genocide. The new version of the song is mellower than the original, but the lyrics are the same: In Africa this Christmas, "the only water flowing/ Is the bitter sting of tears." Still. At the risk of appearing churlish and meanspirited in this festive season, I'm not sure re-recording the song is a big help. Band Aid has been criticized before for its cheesy tune, and Do They Know It's Christmas? may not be the right...