Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your issue of Oct. 29, in the course of a splendid article on the Navy, characterized Commodore Lewis L. Strauss, U.S.N.R., as "a bitter anti-regular." This is an injustice to an outstanding officer, and hundreds of friends and admirers among the regular officers can testify that he is the antithesis of that designation...
...Perhaps TIME should have said "fuddy-duddy." Commodore Strauss is a bitter anti-fuddy-duddy...
...Filipino people; unrest and political dissension multiplied in the hot & humid atmosphere of peace. The homeless, poverty-stricken masses had watched cynically as members of the Philippines Congress (many of whom had kept their jobs under the Japanese) voted themselves full salaries for the last three years. The wartime bitter ness over collaboration still licked and smoked through all ranks of Filipino society...
...demanded at least a guarantee of eventual independence. The Dutch would not give it. Further talks were scheduled, though agreement seemed remote. Meanwhile, the British seized Semarang in central Java after nationalists murdered three officers there. At Surabaya Britain's Indian troops inched forward after nine days of bitter fighting...
...Dutch, the French troops (including the veteran 2nd Armored Division) bore the brunt of the fighting. Last week they captured the focal Annamite resistance center of Tayninh, some 50 miles northwest of Saigon, and got their first overland link with food-rich Cambodia. But the Annamites kept up bitter fighting in the bamboo forests, effectively sniped and sabotaged...