Word: bitter
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...William Henry Harrison gave the longest inaugural speech ever in the bitter cold. A few months later he died of pneumonia, after serving the shortest term in presidential history...
...foundations so painstakingly built by those who sought peace could not stand the weight of bitter history. Northern Ireland's promising experiment in coalition government ended after only 72 days when Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Mandelson, suspended it last week and reimposed direct rule from London. He was avoiding what he considered a worse fate--the resignation of David Trimble, the government's First Minister and leader of the Ulster Unionists who in November promised his party to quit unless the Irish Republican Army began to surrender its guns and explosives...
...fuming over Bush's onslaught of negative ads in recent weeks. Whatever the reasons for McCain's loss in South Carolina, Saturday probably marked the beginning of the end for his surprising and somehow beguiling crusade. It remains to be seen whether McCain - who was adversarial and at times bitter in his concession speech - can find a way to rescue the effort...
...wind." And when she tackled Showgirls, she was just asking for trouble: "I haven't seen that many poles abused since WWII"... Poor Kelly Martin. She decided to leave "ER" and as punishment, the producers have her randomly butchered onscreen so that her bloodstained memory leaves a bitter taste... Leo on the cover of Time. Leo on the cover of Rolling Stone. Leo on the cover of Talk. My God! This boy's publicist deserves a raise. And several magazine editors deserve to be sacked. Isn't there a war in Bosnia? (And no, Leo, growing whiskers and a stubbly...
...become something of a bitter, rhetorical joke: Where would you rather be, as a black man encountering the police - New York City or Los Angeles...