Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lessons of Life. Ernie Bevin is that kind of a man-impatient with the chessboard's strategic subtleties. Life had used him roughly from the first, had given him callouses where other men would have had scars. Born 65 years ago to bitter poverty in Winsford, a Somerset village, Ernie Bevin got an early introduction to strife and independence...
Nothing that passed, nothing that was said at the last, "disastrous" Council of Foreign Ministers in London last year equaled in frank ferocity the exchanges in the Security Council between Messrs. Vishinsky and Bevin. When the bitter anger of the Foreign Ministers' meeting had seeped out to the world, men's hope for themselves and for UNO all but vanished. But, at these public meetings, when Ernest Bevin turned upon the pallid Russian and Vishinsky turned upon the West's great defender, the effect was good, healthy and hopeful...
Labor's bill would not transform the barren land of British mining into a Utopia. Shafts would still be too narrow for modern machinery. Antiquated methods, deep tunnels, high accident rates would still plague the sick British industry. Bitter miners would continue slowdowns and flash strikes...
Pratt's bitter conclusion: "The official censors have pretty well succeeded in putting over the legend that the war was won without a single mistake, by a command consisting exclusively of geniuses, who now have asked to be rewarded by being placed in control of all scientific thought and utterance...
...judgments on the countless bitter controversies which studded the Pacific war (Was the cost of Tarawa inevitable? Was it necessary to conquer Iwo?), he is determinedly fair. As a historian, his concern is more with events themselves than with the exploits of individual heroes. But he has included his estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held...