Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constituent Assembly closed six months of bitter politics, it was clear that France's 14th constitution since1791 would be a Constitution of the Left. Communists and Socialists had beaten down again & again a determined Right-and-Center assault led by the Catholic M.R.P...
...last the bitter rivalry between the two great Commissars seemed ended. For the first time in their long struggle, the master of the Kremlin could turn to his mirror and ask with some assurance...
Yesterday's softball games saw another forfeit, as Leverett bowed to Winthrop. In the only game played, Lowell nosed out Kirkland after a bitter battle, with a 4 to 3 margin...
...they live. To keep the next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort of the Nelson family motto: "Let him wear the palm who has deserved...
...Charmed, or Get Out. Boiling mad, sarcastic, bitter, Editor Ingersoll warns that the British will try to "manipulate" us into World War III, if it comes and if they can. Although World War II was definitely our business, and the U.S. "did a great and truly glorious thing" in helping to fight it to the end, World War III would be "someone else's war" (an Anglo-Russian war he suggests), and none of our business. Only a few pages in Top Secret lack an argumentative tone-notably a graphic chapter of Ingersoll's own D-day experiences...