Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappointments weighed heavy on Harry Truman: 1) Congressional inaction on the whole program of Government planning-for-prosperity which he had inherited from Franklin Roosevelt; 2) labor's bitter criticism of the fact-finding, cooling-off proposal which he had hoped would end the current wave of strikes and threatened strikes...
...cockpit. Then, on Nov. 27, 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, the Erma ran into a freezing westerly gale. She was assailed by storm after storm. Sledging seas sent water spraying through her leaking cabin ports. Everything-clothes, shoes, blankets, bulkheads-grew wet with sea water. It was bitter cold...
...first glance Ed Pauley seemed like a doubtful choice-there could not fail to be bitter debate over his heading a department which controls so much of the nation's oil reserves. He knew little about the Navy. But big, energetic Ed Pauley had a broad background of achievement in private life-he had founded an oil company, directed a bank, helped operate a big construction company. And he had done a shrewd, sound job for the President in sizing up the reparations picture in Germany and Japan. Harry Truman liked him and trusted him; but some...
...first time was after a public furor in the U.S. over his slapping and abusing a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital. (Technically, he remained head of the Seventh Army, but it was a phantom Army with no divisions.) For the old war horse, that was a bitter period. One day he visited Fifth Army headquarters before Cassino, borrowed Mark Clark's Packard, and in this conspicuous vehicle rode recklessly up to the front lines. When he could ride no farther he got out and walked, erect, though mortar shells were bursting all around. More than once, Patton...
...bargain, refuse to negotiate, refuse to arbitrate. That is the way you do it. You are asking for a fight and, brother, you are going to get it, and if it is the last thing we do, brother, we are going to sweat this one out to the bitter end. . . The whole American labor movement is behind us. We are backed to the last goddam inch...