Word: bitter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bitter 1-0 loss in the second game set the stage for what Walsh calls the proudest moment of his Harvard career. As he watched the Tigers swarm into a pig-pile in the infield and saw the Princeton crowd celebrating, he could only envision the next year’s championship...
...ties with the U.S. military, al-Hakim's organization urged its supporters to remain passive. Saddam was the greater evil, they said, and Shiites should not fight to defend the regime. But SCIRI's supporters did not launch an uprising in support of the invasion, probably because of the bitter experience of 1991 when the Shiites were betrayed by the U.S. - the mass influx of SCIRI fighters from Iran during the 1991 uprising had been one reason the first Bush administration refrained from backing the rebellion. This time around, SCIRI officials make no secret of their skepticism...
...bitter experience of 1991 led the U.S. military to devote more energy to minimizing friendly fire, now officially called fratricide--literally, the killing of one's brother. These efforts may have helped reduce the numbers so far in Afghanistan, where four of 31 Americans killed in action, or 13%, were victims of friendly fire. In the new Gulf War, the U.S. Air Force has a dedicated anti-fratricide cell operating out of Saudi Arabia that reviews targeting decisions for air strikes. New technologies include: 1-sq.-in. strips of glow tape stuck to U.S. troops' uniforms and visible only through...
...You’re just bitter because you have to deal with the devil,” says Jobbins, and the two grin...
...hippies to take over your office when we’re done with you!”) and insulting juvenilia (see illustration of Summers, paunch out, barraged by tennis balls) from the staff of a shoddily distributed and quasi-pornographic student publication. As we noted in a moment of bitter self-reflection during week three...