Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shah Pahlevi. They suspected some of his hangers-on of intrigue with Germany and, in any case, Reza Shah was too strong a character to be left athwart the Lend-Lease supply line to the U.S.S.R. So he was deposed, last year in far away Johannesburg died, full of bitter memories. Mohamed Reza, the wavy-haired young playboy, ascended the jeweled Peacock Throne of Iran...
...earn its reputation as a strong union town, Seattle ran a grim gamut of labor trouble, from a bitter citywide general strike (1919) to bloody waterfront wars (1934). Last week a strike made news which the newspapers could not report...
...stream of Iranian notes pleading permission to suppress the revolt in Russian-occupied Azerbaijan drew a bitter, accusing blast from Moscow. Because Government constabulary had provoked incidents in Azerbaijan, the Red Army would admit no Iranian troops into the Iranian province. While it was on the subject, Moscow also turned down a U.S. proposal that all Allied troops leave Iran by Jan. 1, in place of the treaty deadline, March 2. The U.S. thereupon moved 2,000 of its troops back again. The same day, in Azerbaijan, the Iranian Governor of Maragha fell to a rebel's bullet...
...Every week one crafty newsman, who knows the Emperor's fondness for sweets, sends a 3-lb. box of candy to the Palace with a request for an interview. So far, no dice. "The Emperor's first interviews," explains an Imperial Household official, "have still left a bitter taste with his advisers...
...described in a superb piece of war reporting, Tarawa (TIME, March 13, 1944). In On to Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo. It is reported with a tacit grasp of the overall strategy, an identification, remarkable in a correspondent, between Sherrod and the officers and men (chiefly of the U.S. Marine Corps) with whom he shared many of the hazards...