Word: bitterness
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Concepcion lives on an assortment of rolls, bread and coffee, rarely sleeps more than three hours a night, and needs to continue pacing back and forth in front of her signs throughout Washington's bitter-cold winters to avoid dying of hypothermia. Despite all of this, Concepcion's main worry is harassment...
...minded in doling out bad hands to workers and bosses. But because the theme is that the Industrial Revolution ground human beings into human beasts, Berri can't explore the very individual perfidy that was at the heart of Jean de Florette. Germinal, with its climactic mine disaster and bitter lamentations, is finally buried in its fidelity to its source...
...Security taxes on the wages of a nanny. In February 1993, Kennedy did pay $1,352.52 to settle the 1992 bill -- but he did it with a cashier's check supposedly drawn by "Leslie Gail McRae" -- his wife's maiden name (they are engaged in what a friend calls "bitter" divorce proceedings...
...consequences of the Spanish invasion were of course profound and enduring. We can read about one of them in any recent newspaper: the peasants of Mexico's Chiapas province are rebelling against a landholding scheme that has remained essentially unchanged since it was imposed by the Spanish four bitter centuries...
...daydream ends, and a bitter taste enters the mouth...