Word: bitterness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many of the speakers on the panel were quick to acknowledge the South's bitter racial history as well as recent attempts to repair the racial divide...
...kind of chronic blackmail, a moral collection racket. In an entirely different way, there are also Israelis who object to Holocaust remembering, because they think it a sign of weakness or at least of unproductive obsession. Some Jews who favor pressing the case against Swiss banks recall a bitter joke: in czarist Russia, two Jews are lined up against the wall to be shot; the captain of the firing squad asks if there is a last request. One Jew replies, "I believe I am entitled to a last cigarette"; the second whispers anxiously, "Max, don't make trouble...
...school. Yes, it's true that 2 out of 4 dropped out, but what about the 81 men who also quit out of a class of 581? And while most "knobs" drop out during the first few weeks of the semester, these women hung in there until the bitter end. The two remaining women cadets continue to do well at the Citadel. After reading about the vicious hazing, which supposedly builds character but instead seems to keep these students at a juvenile level, I can only ask, What company would want to fill its jobs with men who set people...
...facts, consideration of the available 'options,' and application of logical decisions...Like no Defense Secretary before him, he has seized control of the Pentagon. Military leaders can offer advice, but McNamara makes the decisions...His love of computers, and his own computerlike mind, have led to the bitter quip that IBM really stands for 'I, Bob McNamara...
DETROIT: In what is largely a procedural move to force management's hand in a bitter 19-month old strike, Detroit's six striking newspaper-employee unions presented return-to-work offers to Detroit Newspapers on Monday. The unions said they would return to work if management would agree to rehire all the strikers, something that the company has already said it will not do. Unions hope that a refusal of their offer will help make their case before the National Labor Relations Board that Detroit Newspapers, which manages the joint business and production operations for The Detroit News...