Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whoever this despairing demon was, John could at least try the things he'd learned about demon expulsion. But then he'd catch a new glimpse of the face, and he'd stay where he was. Maybe this was no demon at all but the bitterest lesson Jesus must learn before the incomparably bitter cross--Jesus had told John more than once that a cross would stand near the end of his road. Now John heard one more thing, several times: "Let this cup pass. Abba, not this cup. But, sir, your will." Appalling as the transaction was, even John...
Only last May, the subcontinent's bitterest adversaries seemed poised on the brink of catastrophe as both detonated atomic devices and became the latest and most aggressive members of the nuclear club. "Even a month ago, no one could have foreseen such spectacular progress," says McAllister. For months, however, the United States has been quietly pressing the two countries to open up to each other a bit, and that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says...
...Internet called the Church of Buffett, Orthodox, who believe that Margaritaville amounts to "apostasy" and that Buffett's "spiritual core" resides in his earliest work. "If I ever had to defend myself to the Church of Buffett," he says at dinner, "I would only say that the bitterest artists I know are those who had the chance to jump through the hoop and chose not to take it. They stayed on as coffeehouse singers. But I jumped through, not knowing what was on the other side. And when I got there, I had to deal with it. It wasn...
...hopes the White House had of a scandal-free "back-to-work" week were dissolving Tuesday, after the GOP leadership launched its bitterest attack on the President since the Lewinsky crisis began. ?I believe he?s a shameless person,? House Majority Leader Dick Armey announced to a group of 50 high school students -- adding that if he were in Clinton?s shoes, ?I would be so filled with shame that I would resign.? And in case anyone had any doubt, Newt Gingrich added a reminder that the dismissal of the Paula Jones suit would not impede a possible impeachment probe...
...With his bitterest rivals flanking him at the witness table and the ornery Hatch on the dais, Gates will take a lesson back to Redmond: Washington, D.C., is full of lawyers just as tough as Microsoft's. The bully act doesn't work here. But a cherub-faced software salesman with $40 billion? He ought to do just fine...