Word: bitter
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After an hour-long preparation, the actual ceremony can finally commence. Before drinking the tea, the host gives the guest a few pieces of candy to compensate for the very bitter tea, which chado practitioners freely admit is “an acquired taste.” In contrast to the lengthy set-up, the actual drinking of the tea takes a few moments...
...last time the Harvard men’s soccer team played a one-goal game, it was the other team that pounced first, and the Crimson left the field with a bitter taste in its mouth...
...already been beheaded on camera. Bigley appealed directly to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "You are the only person on God's earth who can help me. Please free female prisoners held in Iraqi prisons." Blair refused to bargain with the kidnappers, which made Kenneth's brother Paul bitter. "If my brother dies, his blood is on Blair's hands," he said. "The government say they can't negotiate with terrorists, but that is exactly what they did with the I.R.A." Blair, preparing for a party conference he hoped might allow him to leave Iraq behind, didn't have...
...extremely angry, bitter, upset. I feel cheated. Should I go on? I just feel robbed." SERENA WILLIAMS, after her loss to Jennifer Capriati at the U.S. Open in a match marred by several questionable calls by the chair umpire that went against Williams...
...blazing intelligence and hair-trigger sense of outrage are riveting. In a 1963 appearance on Jonathan Winters' Breakfast Show, Bruce careens manically from Castro's Cuba to W.C. Fields' anti-Semitism to his own fantasy plot for entrapping the judge trying his obscenity case in San Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames (quite seriously) the declining quality of entertainment on bossy office secretaries. Hot or cool, sober or drug-fueled, Bruce obliterated the line between stand-up and self-revelation...