Word: bitterer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...same way Americans abroad, out of a sense of propriety, claim to be Canadians, I usually tell Cantabridgians that I’m from Washington D.C. I’ve never actually met any Appalachian Virginians, but I’ve always assumed they were kind of inbred yokels, bitter people clinging to their guns and religion. I know they probably consider me a left-wing Jewish homosexual pornographer. (Both caricatures probably have a degree of truthiness to them...
...Springfield and on the way to no place in particular. It sits in Christian County, which voted 70% Republican in the last presidential election. It's not the easiest part of the world to promote a candidate known for his statement that guns and religion might be the bitter psychological baggage of America's left-behind. Over the summer, state Republicans made hay of Obama's "field office" in Nixa, pop. roughly 17,000, which was but a table and chairs set up outside a vacant storefront. "Paid?" quipped former state GOP chairman Hillard Selck. "This could just be some...
...time you’ve been defeated by an opponent seven straight times, you start to get a little bitter,’’ Tavani said...
...word with regard to the situation I’m sure is on all of our minds: We have to turn over the money. I know that’s a bitter pill to swallow, but there’s nothing we can do about it now. The deed is done and we’re up a creek without this move...
...ultimately, a losing fight: Pearce won the primary with almost 70% of the vote in the very conservative Mesa senate district, and he is heavily favored to win the general election. But just as bitter has been the fight for the smaller prizes of key positions within the local branches of the state Republican Party...