Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will travel the road to the bitter end," cried Walter Reuther, "because we know we are right and are willing to fight for what is right...
Chinese reaction to the plan to temporize with Japan was prompt and bitter. Owen Lattimore, U.S. political adviser to Chiang Kaishek, cabled: "I have never seen the Generalissimo really agitated before. . . . [This] would dangerously increase Japan's military advantage in China. . . . The Generalissimo questions his ability to hold the situation together if the Chinese national trust in America is undermined...
...restiveness of India, the bitter rebellion of Indo-China and Indonesia, the conflict within China had an immense and common impulse: the surge of a billion people toward a new place in the world...
...peacetime monkeys and pickled dogfish were replaced by a regiment of electronic engineers. Their job was to poke fingers into enemy radar eyes. To get in practice for far-off German and Jap radars, the Harvardmen picked on the Radiation Lab at M.I.T., a mile away. The bitter war raged across the roofs of Cambridge...
What Paper Do You Read? The quality of this extravagant coverage was something else. The painful Pearl Harbor story was confused at best. It was com plicated by contradiction, by varying recol lections and by bitter bouts of political swordplay. Most of the reporters strove to tell it coherently. But a sizable portion of the U.S. press did little to untangle the story for the man who knew only what he read in the papers...