Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...descend suddenly on the troubled U.S. industrial front. Beyond wages, there were other reasons for striking. One of them had tied up 242 ships in New York's harbor, another had closed nearly half the nation's bituminous coal mines, and a third was still stirring up bitter battles in Hollywood...
...that the U.S. might as well readjust her international ways and thinking to a world of bloc v. bloc was all too easy to accept. Even those who hoped only that the infant United Nations Organization might bridge the gap for a while seemed to be whistling in a bitter wind...
...necessary dependence on interpreters, the striking number of higher-rank officers in residence with mistresses of vanished Nazi bigwigs, the general air of maladroitness and cumbersome effort had given rise to a bitter description. By Germans, and by many a discerning G.I., the U.S. occupation rule of Germany and Austria was being called "the government of interpreters and mistresses...
...would be a bitter winter, and many people would die. Yet in disfigured Vienna and the eight other Bundesländer of Austria, men found cause for hope...
...given in ice cream. Doctors at the San Diego Naval Training Center, treating sore throat, scarlet fever and trench mouth, stir penicillin into soft ice cream, put the mixture in paper cups and refreeze it in a refrigerator tray. The ice cream preserves the drug, disguises its bitter taste, and slips easily down babies and other difficult patients...