Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have needed more spin doctors than there are in Bill Clinton's staff to pluck optimism from the bitter New England spring...
Despite the tortuous turns in her career, Hadid says she's not bitter. At 48, she's still young for an architect. And she doesn't believe in glass ceilings. Unless, of course, she's thinking of designing...
Orwell holds the world record for scaring us away from a future that seemed perfectly plausible. People like to claim that Orwell "got it wrong," as if it were Orwell's fault that we don't dwell in some ghastly dystopia. His 1984 (published in 1949) is the bitter work of a dying man. Granted, political correctness and language theory haven't become Newspeak just yet. But Orwell's portrait of a debased Britain, singing machine-made pop songs and obsessed with vast public lotteries, has a certain uneasy resonance even...
...company commander in the Khmer Rouge with a pistol strapped to his hip, fighting the U.S.-backed government of Lon Nol. He survived the war although he lost his left eye, and he then fled to Vietnam to escape bitter purges by an increasingly paranoid Pol Pot. Many colleagues who fell afoul of Pol Pot were tortured to death in the infamous Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh. "I lost my first child during Pol Pot's time," Hun Sen says. "One of my in-laws was killed and many of my uncles and nephews." He returned to Cambodia...
This may hurt us as much as it hurts you... Monday's congressional calls for Washington to block China's bid for membership in the World Trade Organization over the nuclear secrets issue won't be welcomed by U.S. exporters. "Although Beijing knows China needs it, WTO membership is bitter medicine because it forces them to open up their markets," says TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime Florcruz. "A lot of Chinese industries will collapse in the face of competition, which is why Beijing would have preferred to enter the organization with the status of a developing country, which would give...