Word: bitterness
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...video of Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four July 7 suicide bombers, was released on the eve of the bombings' one-year anniversary. In it, he promises that attacks like the one on London's public transport network that killed 52 would become stronger, his Yorkshire accent a bitter reminder that he and his cohorts were British citizens, three of them born here. Those who knew the July 7 bombers described them as "ordinary" guys who had never caused any trouble before...
...from fighting near-or collapsing in-her property. "We know nothing gets done, so what can we do?" It's a frustration expressed in equal measure by victims and legal authorities. Some locals call the drinking epidemic "green-can Dreaming," a reference to the packaging of the popular Victoria Bitter beer and the paralytic state many indigenous drinkers attain. But this Dreaming long ago became a nightmare. Under its influence, many drinkers spend their entire welfare checks in the pub. And the damage they do-to property, to the spouses and children they beat or keep destitute, to the drinkers...
...unsuccessfully, to catch a glimpse of smoke or fire. Still, the lull has encouraged a few optimists in Tyre to hope it might turn into a cease-fire. But realists listen to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's speech, in which he rejects a cease-fire, and know from bitter experience that the fighting will likely resume soon...
...continues to rain down rockets on Israel, and the tenacity of its guerrilla fighters in engagement with elite Israeli infantry units has made clear that neutralizing it as a fighting force in southern Lebanon would require the sort of massive ground invasion that Israel wants to avoid, because bitter experience has taught it that getting out is infinitely more difficult than going...
...show sends up the usual Tinseltown types, but Kightlinger thoroughly rounds out Jackie, giving her the kind of drawling feminist sarcasm rarely seen since Roseanne left sitcomdom. Cynical yet principled, bitter but still ambitious, Jackie wants to conquer Hollywood yet not be of it. (She refuses, for instance, to drive.) She's the kind of tough, tart 21st century broad you would expect to idolize a '30s Derby queen: she's armed with a Billy Wilder wit and unafraid to throw elbows. And it's refreshing to see a sitcom about a woman past her 20s who is obsessed with...