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This summer, as I scuttled around New Zealand, a victim of Let's Go exploitation, I did some thinking. I was all alone, bitter and so bored that I watched my laptop's graphics demo five times. A low-key break from civilization turned into a personal hell when I realized who I was stuck with--me. The sound of my voice in my head drove me insane as I'd crank through the same set of self-examining questions. Over and over. I would even dictate impassioned editor's notes (like this) in my head. At the time...
...latter of the two victories sent Harvard home from the second round of the NCAA tournament and ended its season, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of some Crimson players...
...while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even in a boom economy with a government surplus, many vital programs will have to be cut for the spending caps to hold. Although the spending caps are likely to be exceeded, a long and bitter debate will certainly come first, as programs jockey for funding...
...people existed. Then, in 1963, her friend Denise McNair was killed in the church bombing that helped ignite the civil rights movement. The family moved out of Alabama, eventually relocating to Denver. But living under Jim Crow instilled in Rice an astonishing resilience. "I came out of that not bitter but with a sense of entitlement," she says, "to do whatever I wanted to do, to be whoever I wanted...
Still, Kaushik isn't bitter about his misfortune. "Everywhere I go," he says, "I make a point of learning something new." Launching his own start-up, he says, "seemed like absolutely the right decision but may have been a stupid one, looking back." So he's returned to programming, a gun for hire, although he's confident that his current employer, Corio, will finally hit the ipo payola. At times, though, he can't help sounding weary. "I don't foresee things anymore," he says. "If it happens, great. If not, I can't do anything about...