Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Harbor. She was tucked away in an East River pier, her carcass decently out of-sight. Agents came aboard her to calculate coldly the amount of aluminum in her superstructure, the steel in her hull. Officers and men learned then that old Pat was through. They were not bitter. More than 200 other veterans of World War II (about 600,000 tons of warships) were also marked for the scrap heap. Considering the life she had led, Pat had lasted a long time...
...bitter pill in Harry Truman's drink was a rider which ordered the return of United States Employment Service to state control within 30 days. It pointedly ignored the President's "urgent" recommendation that the control of USES be retained by the Federal Government "at least until . . . June 30, 1947" and that its appropriation be increased by $10 million...
...goes for advice to Commodore Lewis L. Strauss, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., now a naval reservist and a bitter anti-regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer...
France had come to this crossroads through the ordeal of defeat and occupation, and through the explosive tensions of liberation. She had tasted the bitter truth in the words of Lord Grey of Fallodon: "Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty." Now, in democratic fashion, France registered her choice for the future...
...waited for the Government to add up the bill and present the check. Not so the soldier. Angered before by strikes in wartime, he boiled over again at the longshoremen's strike, which was slowing down his return home. This week the New York Times printed soldiers' bitter letters on Page One. Typical excerpt...