21.   Out there, Lindsey saw a bit of his grandfather, the original James Lindsey, a Confederate sharp-shooter, who also tasted bitter defeat.

22.   Saturday, the Wildcats and Aggies will face off for the first time since that bitter defeat.

23.   The Balkan League led Bulgaria to bitter defeat when its former allies, Serbia and Greece, turned against it.

24.   The following year her husband endured a bitter defeat at the polls, when he failed to win reelection as governor.

25.   The Soviets suffered a bitter defeat in Afghanistan, and the memory still lingers.

26.   The vote is a bitter defeat for Hilton Chief Executive Stephen Bollenbach.

27.   These should give them a good place to start, once the pain of a bitter organizational defeat has a chance to subside.

28.   What a brilliant afternoon it turned out to be for a city that revels in tradition but has habitually had to swallow bitter defeat.

29.   A Labor Party inquiry this week blamed the bitter defeat on poor planning and election day organization.

30.   It was a bitter defeat for Italian coach Ratko Rudic.