Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been a morale technician during most of my Army career so I speak with some knowledge when I say that the vast majority of our men hate the Army with a hate that is more bitter by far than any they ever felt for our enemies. The Army sowed this wind...
...prepared to pay a price for peace in China: maintenance for the time being of its Army and Navy forces there. That means delaying the return of those forces-probably more than 100,000 men. The justification: to win the peace for which 13,000,000 Americans fought a bitter war and in which 1,000,000 Americans were killed or wounded...
...second week of the General Motors strike wore away, feelings grew more bitter. The C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers set up an outdoor soup kitchen in Detroit to keep its pickets warm. In Saginaw, someone threw bricks through the windows of a company officer's house; the union called it an attempt to smear the union...
Here & there throughout the speech was a scattering of Churchillian invective: "morbid and reactionary Socialists," "hagridden by Socialist doctrinaries," "bitter, cast-iron Socialist dogmas," "the gloomy vultures of nationalization," "the heavy-footed State...
Postwar France has no color photography as yet, and few flashbulbs-so Mme. Lazareff borrowed a collection of French accessories, including 15 chic Lilly Dache hats, for the first covers, to be photographed in Manhattan. She believes that French humorists are now turning out only bitter satire-so she bought a double-page spread of cartoons by the New Yorker's not-so-bitter James Thurber...