Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Virginia's diehard Republican Senator Chapman Revercomb rose up on the floor of the Senate to thunder his objections: "I don't want to draft troops to take part in a civil war in China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...
From that point on, his liberal Education was dearly bought in a series of tough schools. He stayed in Spain until the bitter-end exodus to Perpignan, then spent three years grimly reporting the decline & fall of the Italy he had once admired. He was kicked out twice, readmitted once. In India, he put in eleven months of painstaking discovery, came to no startling conclusion about "the problem," but gave Times readers a memorable correspondence course in its complexities...
Aldington obviously meant it to be hammock reading, and no more. But except for a few writing tricks, and a display of erudition, no summer reader would recognize it as the work of the man who wrote World War I's bitter Death of a Hero, or that first-rate biography of Wellington, The Duke...
...done to change all this, and what should America's position be? Our position in China is undeniably bound into our global military strategy, increasingly so because of the worsening of relations with Russia. It is probably this fact that gives confidence to the Kuomintang's bitter-enders. These men smugly ask themselves: What can the Americans do but continue to support the Central Government, in view of the ideological tie between China's Communists and Soviet Russia? They assume that our strategic military position binds us to the Central Government, whether we like its attitude...
...reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage, is wounded when he gets home), add to the "suspense" involved. They don't, they merely detract from an otherwise first-rate account...