Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later that day, Private Matthews collapsed from fatigue and was evacuated. The Assault is the story of his own participation in one of history's bitterest battles, in which 20,860 out of 71,245 troops who took part were casualties. Unavoidably, it covers much old ground without revealing anything new about war. Yet in its almost tedious realism and painful authenticity it plows deeper into the meaning of combat than many a more artfully written book...
...there. It was not. At the classic flagpole spot where at noon 'the broad stripes and bright stars o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming,' there was nothing but the dim line of a naked pole. . . . That unflagged pole was one of the bitterest disappointments of my life...
...bitterest pill is the fact that not six months ago, London refused large scale immigration into Palestine "because of the large British army that would be required there to keep peace." Yet today, there is a British army of well over 100,000 in the Holy Land whose apparent function is to wipe out the Jewish underground. If the British could succeed in this venture. Palestine would house a permanent Jewish minority. Naturally, the Arab League, even if cut off in Palestine, would make its weight felt throughout the other British interests in the Middle East. After five years...
...Tanguthurai Prakasam, the Prime Minister of India's sprawling, southern province of Madras, has some strange ideas. He would, for example, like to scrap Madras' big textile industry in favor of Mohandas Gandhi's cottage spinners. But not even Prakasam's bitterest opponents have ever challenged his integrity, or his reputation for truthfulness. Last week the 75-year-old premier had a big budget of shocking truth for the Presidency's Legislative Assembly. To Indians still accustomed to think only in terms of Hindu v. Moslem conflicts, Prakasam revealed that Madras had weathered a full...
Then it was time for Giuseppe Saragat, sometimes called the Leon Blum of Italy, and Nenni's bitterest enemy. He had come to secede. In a strong, clear voice he deplored "this moment of grief." He said: "Our party has fallen into the hands of men who no longer believe in its historical function as an independent party. If we had one hope in a thousand that we could redirect the present Socialist Party towards its true role, we would remain. This hope we do not have. We must give the laboring masses a true Socialist Party which...