Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece, despite the Communist-led (| EAM's bitter boycott of the nation's first elections in ten years, some 70% of the electorate voted. Under the eyes of British troops and Allied observers, they gave the Populist (Royalist) Party an edge over the Republican (center) coalition. Spokesmen for the EAM. which a year ago had seemed unquestionably Greece's most popular faction, blustered: "There'll be another round...
...played a Gentile eleven, crowds suddenly rioted and yelled: "Into the gas with them! Into the gas!" Further south, along the thawing Danube, in Budapest, gypsies who had survived the Nazi purges again fiddled in the cafes (one of their songs: "Give my regards to lovely old Vienna. . . .") and bitter memories welled up with the execution of pro-Nazi ex-Premier Ferenc Szalasi and three of his ministers...
...Francisco Largo Caballero, who had shaped the history of Spain by fighting stubbornly for the things he wanted, fought on for breath. If he could still remember, his memories must have been bitter...
Credits & Surpluses. Premier Soong has held out no prospect save the bitter one of higher taxes and continued shortages. Reparations in kind from Japan will eventually help. But Manchuria, once the white hope of China's reconstruction, has become a liability instead of an asset, thanks to Russian stripping of Japanese-built factories. A $33,000,000 cotton loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank promises to ease the textile situation. Most effective will be UNRRA's $562,000,000 shot in China's economic arm, but this will only start the job of rehabilitation...
...these pacific remarks, Mr. de Valera invited Americans to take his side in the fight for a united Ireland. "Abraham Lincoln fought a bitter civil war.... There are," suggested Dev, "few Americans who today would say that the ideals for which he fought were wrong...