The weather, on March 3, 1916, had been bitter and wet; a century on, the sun thought it proper to shine, as a token of early spring, in keeping with the celebratory mood.
In the 1980s, researchers found that the plant's tubers taste bitter when grown in wet areas, but reported that the taste improved when the weed was planted in drier places.
Portuguese food was a betrayal of nature with its burnt fish, wet cabbage and thin, bitter vinho verde.
"While heat-related illnesses are common for firefighters, now you combine that with the rapid onset of frostbite or hypothermia when they come out and they're wet and exposed to bitter cold temperatures," he said.
The brewer of Pedigree, Banks's bitter and Jennings Cumberland ale sold 388 "wet-led" pubs last year and opened 27 newly built pub-restaurants.
Bittereinders ("bitter-enders") under Botha, Christiaan de Wet and Koos de la Rey took to the veld and waged a guerrilla campaign.
First, some scholars have held that Anaxagoras limited the basic ingredients to the opposites, such as hot and cold, wet and dry, sweet and bitter, dark and light, and so on.
The size and placement of reserves is the source of bitter controversy, because the ocean is essentially a vast, wet, barren blue desert, containing relatively small oases where the food chain flourishes and fish of every kind congregate.
Energizer Holdings said it filed on Friday a patent infringement lawsuit against Gillette, escalating a bitter legal war between the two largest makers of wet razors and blades.
He used a political metaphor to define health and disease: The equality (isonomia) of the opposing powers which make up the body (e.g., the wet, the dry, the hot, the cold, the sweet, the bitter etc).
He also wrote the play Brown Bitter, Wet Nellies, and Scouse, which was performed in the early 1980s at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, where he was the resident writer.
