Word: bitterness
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...steel did not search him again, and he remained in such a tacit communion with the fragrance he drank, that he feared to move lest he break it. He could not notice when the air which had soothed him became hot and bitter, or the darkness to which he clung turned into a cage of burning wire...
...Some bitter and mournful, others folksy, the manuscripts lay abandoned. Who could find them, buried in attics and special libraries? Who could read their Yiddish? And so these Yizkor (or memory) books--written as requiems to entire Jewish communities extinguished by World War II--were nearly forgotten. After all, few of the Holocaust survivors who memorialized the dead were professional writers. The more than 1,200 texts they wrote chronicle the sad years of genocide and often the decades, even centuries, before. Their accounts, typically printed in limited press runs, adapted a Jewish tradition from the late 13th century...
...Harvard loss would mark a bitter end to a stellar season, one which included an Ivy title and had seemed, all along, a mere precursor to NCAA tournament success...
...overall U.S. mission in Iraq. U.S. commanders on the ground chose instead to cut a deal, in recognition, perhaps, that the goal of militarily eliminating the insurgency before the U.S. goes home may be a bridge too far. For their part the insurgents clearly sense that, far from being "bitter enders" as Donald Rumsfeld likes to call them, they may in fact have a future in a new Iraq. That's precisely what the U.S. military wants them to recognize, believing that the insurgency is fueled in large part by Sunni alienation from the efforts of the Coalition...
...slow-witted Luther and Betty Wallace, whose grasp of fundamental life skills--bill paying, food shopping, child rearing--is poor enough to put both of them forever in the keeping of cops and social workers. At separate points in the story, Betty's quick-tempered uncle and her bitter teenage daughter from an earlier liaison come to join them in their cluttered trailer. Trouble ensues...