1.   As is the tradition, the women sat in chairs and drank bitter coffee.

2.   At Orient House, dozens of Palestinians sat on plastic chairs in the courtyard sipping bitter coffee and talking over the prayer chant of a lone Moslem muezzin.

3.   At a wake for one of the men, Ibrahim Rayan, mourners sipped bitter coffee and talked about the need for more revenge attacks against Israel.

4.   Bedouin hospitality is legendary, and guests are eagerly invited into their tents for tiny cups of bitter coffee.

5.   After pouring us the dregs of a pot of bitter coffee, the man ushered us outside to the shed and handed us a pile of gunny sacks.

6.   Hardtack and bitter coffee were a little much to ask of civilians.

7.   There was none of the bitter dark coffee of a normal wake.

8.   Breakfast is traditional bitter Arabic coffee and dates.

9.   Elderly men in a cafe puffed cigarettes and sipped bitter Arabic coffee as they played cards to kill time.

10.   Keeping with Palestinian tradition, Abington and the others sipped bitter black coffee serve in small cups without handles.