Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kuwaiti families in the city, asking them to behave modestly and stop gathering conspicuously in public. Sober-minded Kuwaitis insist that their boogie-loving brethren, featured prominently in the Western media, make up only a tiny minority of their countrymen. "A lot of the criticism is bitter and not deserved just because there are a few crazy people," says Adeeb Essa, spokesman for the Association for Free Kuwait in London...
While those who know him say King Hussein is genuinely bitter that the U.S. attacked Iraq, his behavior is also clearly influenced by popular opinion in Jordan, which is avidly -- and almost uniformly -- pro-Saddam. Says Samuel Lewis, former U.S. ambassador to Israel: "The King is concentrating on riding his domestic tiger...
...bitter. Bitter at lovers who gloat. Bitter at women who say they don't want me to get hurt. Bitter at roommates who eat my Valentine's Day candy...
...Cliff Harrison stands in vigil with fellow Quakers on a bitter February afternoon outside Harvard Square's Au Bon Pain, tourists and townies alike interrupt their casual strolls to witness a protest for peace in the Gulf...
...Saudis announced they had retaken the town. One column of tanks approached the Saudi border with their guns pointing backward, which allied forces took as a sign that the troops manning them wanted to defect; instead the Iraqis swiveled their turrets around rapidly and opened fire. There was a bitter possibility that the very first Americans known to have died in combat in the gulf, the 11 Marines, were killed by misguided missiles from U.S. warplanes rather than by Iraqi fire. An investigative team was trying to determine exactly what kind of projectiles had struck their LAVs. Friendly fire...