Word: bitterness
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Newt Gingrich has been learning that bitter lesson this year. The Republican House majority he led into Washington two years ago was the most impressive phalanx to enter the capital since the British came to burn it in 1814. As spearhead of the revolution his party was supposed to effect, Gingrich equipped himself heavily, putting aside the seniority rules to install committee chairmen loyal to him and denying his assistance as a fund raiser to House members who broke discipline on important votes. No journalist's story about him was complete until it described him as the most powerful Speaker...
...supply you with a prostitute when you're horny, beat up a rival trying to make time with your estranged girlfriend. Beware the cable guy bearing gifts. Indeed, beware anyone emerging out of the hostile anonymity of modern city life who is too anxious to assuage your anomie. If bitter experience has taught our paranoia anything, it's that excesses of accommodation are all too often aggression's most winsome disguise...
After six weeks of bitter argument, the school committee responded to declining enrollment by slashing 23.5 teaching positions--a move which left many teachers and elected officials demoralized and divided...
...move follows one of the largest protest rallies in recent history, the resignation of two students from a student-faculty committee on public service and an increasingly bitter power struggle over the fate of Cambridge's largest public service group...
...just the next weekend, however, the bitter winds of New York weren't so kind to the Crimson...