Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kennedy was not embittered; he is not a bitter man. And he had had worse troubles: within two months last year, his eldest son, Joseph Jr., and his son-in-law, the Marquess of Hartington, had both been killed in action. He had tried to take his mind off his troubles; he had bought property in Manhattan and Albany, finally paid $17,000,000 for the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. The antidote did not work. Said Kennedy: "I thought I'd get a kick out of such trading, but I didn...
Meanwhile, Japanese complained that Tokyo newspapers had not published war criminal lists. There was bitter derision for Tojo's suicide failure and favorable comment on those officials who gave themselves up. When Tokyo papers (on direction from MacArthur's headquarters) published accounts of atrocities suffered by U.S. prisoners, Japanese asked that they be allowed to arrest, try and punish their own criminals...
...Tolstoy, the Soviets decided, should be commemorated with a museum -the stationmaster's dwelling at Astapovo, where the great novelist died 35 years ago. After a last bitter quarrel with his wife, Tolstoy had stormed from his Yasnaya Polyana home, entrained for Moscow to begin life anew at 82; on the train he was seized with chills and fever, got off at Astapovo, succumbed to pneumonia a week later...
...nation creates no immediate dangers, because at this stage of the bomb's development huge production plants (which exist in the U.S. alone) are necessary. But over the next ten or 15 years the prospect was one in which even the bomb's first victims found a bitter grain of comfort...
Then she cooed: "Now, most Washingtonians are convinced that Mrs. Truman intended no slight in not receiving Madame Chiang. It is the sort of misunderstanding which could undoubtedly have been cleared up overnight-long before the rumor mills began grinding out their bitter chaff-if the distaff side of the White House maintained any sort of 'diplomatic' relations with the press...