Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Willows. From Tiehling to Hsinmin it is two days, via Mukden, where, as refugees note, "faces are bitter and prices even higher than in Changchun." At Hsinmin the Nationalist lines end again. South of that rail city lies the most terrible san-pu-kuan stretch of all, the notorious Liu Ho Ko, or Willow River Ditch. This no man's land belongs to bandits who dress in yellow jackets and black pants, carry white knapsacks and oiled-paper umbrellas. They lie in wait along a willow-lined ditch, jump up with drawn revolvers, shout...
...authorities watch the incoming flood of misery with a feeling of helpless dismay. The refugees cannot be housed or adequately fed. They add to the misery, starvation and chaos of Nationalist China. In the North, the Reds still tighten the screws, drive more millions on to the bitter roads of China...
...childhood in Tredegar, South Wales, left the Minister of Health far from mellow. "No amount of cajolery and no attempts at ethical or social seduction," he told a meeting of Laborites at Manchester, "can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin . . ." "What is Toryism," he asked later, "but organized spivery...
...Salvation Army (first called the Christian Mission) and Evangeline were both born in the same year. At 15 she was fitted out with a sergeant's uniform and sallied forth as a full-fledged soldier of Christ. The Salvationists of those days lived in a world of bitter war. Mission houses were "citadels" and "forts," converts were "prisoners of war" or "trophies." Posters proclaimed...
Among the rebellious rump of doctors, some were bitter-enders. Said one 63-year-old stalwart: "I'm an individualist. I'd rather cut my throat than sell my free dom." Said a smart practitioner with a large country practice: "I serve both my bank balance and my patients by staying out. There's no call for cheap services here, save for chauffeurs and gardeners...