Word: bitterness
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...flanking maneuver on welfare reform or a timely reminder of his opposition to gay marriage. Instead it ended with the Clinton-Gore campaign buying $1.2 million worth of ads that suggested to viewers that the only thing Bob Dole had done lately was "quit." And it climaxed with a bitter exchange over abortion, in which charges and countercharges over piety and principle flew back and forth with a startling ferocity. It became the week to talk about values, but the values most often invoked last week--like civility, decency, personal responsibility--were not much in evidence among their champions...
Three days after Hall's optimistic assessment, Weathers, face burned black and arms nearly useless, would be one of the surprise survivors of one of the worst alpine disasters in recent memory. On the night of May 10 a storm swept the summit's fearsome "Death Zone" with snow, bitter cold and hurricane-force winds. Within 24 hours, eight of the more than 30 climbers on the peak were dead, among them Hall and Scott Fischer of Seattle, who was also running a commercial tour...
...claims that the Belgrade secret police (who originally recruited him, the lawyer later suggests) variously want to arrest him and hand him over to the Hague or kill him to prevent him from surrendering to the tribunal or discredit him so he cannot testify against his superiors. He is bitter about his treatment. "In Croatia people like me have been rewarded," he complains...
...ambitious of these new albums, addressing racial, sexual and religious concerns in lyrics that are by turns inscrutable and revealing. On one song, The Way, NdegeOcello sings, "They say you're the way the light/The light is so blinding/Your followers condemn me your words used to enslave me." Her bitter words are a sharp contrast to the agreeably slick, burbling, bass-heavy groove of the music. On some of the other songs, though, one wishes NdegeOcello's music were as fiery as her lyrics...
SENATOR TED STEVENS Wins bitter battle for increased logging in Alaska, but Clinton wins right to waive it. He will...