Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finger over the rim to watch the level, and he minded the way she talked to herself perpetually, going about the house with her lips moving as though she were some kind of old-fashioned priestess forever at her praying, or insane. Also, she whined. But Clumly was not bitter. 'Nobody' life is perfect,' he sometimes said to himself, which was true...
...From the bitter opening invocation "Look down, look down," intoned by prisoners in a dungeon, to the anthemic rallying cry "When tomorrow comes," sung at the finale by the spectral dead of revolutionary 19th century Paris, the musical version of Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Miserables is a melodrama inflamed with outrage. Its politics always matter more than its love stories. Many of its principals die in violence or grief, but the most unprincipled of them endure and thrive. Like Nicholas Nickleby, staged largely by the same team, Les Miserables denies itself the indulgence of even a muted happy...
...bitter. I wish Raymundo all the best in his pursuit of his hard-earned winnings. And I hope Meg has finally found the place of final peace that I used to hope she would. For Rutger Fury, the quest 'for heiress' millions is a thing of the past, a dim memory in the tableau of life...
...election issue is a bitter one in a nation that has not had a democratic change of power since its founding in 1948, and hopes to show the world a peaceful face when it is host to the 1988 Summer Olympics. Chun, who would be the first South Korean leader to leave office voluntarily, wants to convert the presidential system into a parliamentary one that would choose his successor. That move would allow the party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such...
...tangle of overlapping partnerships and took on mortgages and other liabilities that no one fully grasped. Donald Jones, a longtime Kroh senior executive who is now president of the firm, recalls that company officials were often stunned when obligations they had not known about came due. Says a bitter John Kroh Sr., 82, who retired as head of the company in 1969 and handed over control to Sons John and George: "They just stopped watching the cash register...