Word: bitterness
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There was a long, bitter winter filled with snow and ice. Then, at some arbitrary point, winter became summer--passing over the idea of spring altogether...
Welles' talent for aging into the bitter, declining Kane is truly remarkable. And as the young Kane, full of fire and utopian spirit, he is unstoppable. Sweeping through the staid New York Inquirer, the young man announces that the paper is to enter a new era, "If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough!" Kane soon proves that his new journalism sells--that he can fight for the downtrodden while boosting his circulation; that he can create wars with a run of his press; and power in the world can't bring him what he wants...
...interview yesterday, Dowds said that while he had offered to serve as CCA president for a third year, he is not bitter that is term of office is ending...
...news of her death was a bitter blow to many Texans, especially Mexican-American youths, for whom Selena had become both an icon and a role model. She was the embodiment of young, smart, hip, Mexican-American youth-wearing midriff-baring bustiers and boasting of a tight-knit family and a down-to-earth personality, a Madonna without the controversy. Hundreds of teenagers, many weeping, gathered at the scene of the shooting, while on the other side of town a long procession of cars passed the lower-middle-class home where Selena lived. Many fans placed balloons and notes...
...bleak financial results only sharpened the bitter charges and countercharges over who was responsible for the collapse of the $2.7 billion firm, which earned $35.7 million in 1993 and had seemed primed for increased profits in 1994. Disaffected directors blamed Agee for withholding from them the true state of the company. Partisans of the deposed chairman blamed Clark and a coterie of anonymous Agee detractors for precipitating a panic among lenders and stockholders, who, along with present and former MK employees, have brought 19 suits against Agee and the board...