Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Press Hostel in Chungking to follow a triumphant Chiang Kai-shek into Nanking, must have been reminded of the day four years ago when the Jap bombing of Manila burned her home to the ground and she lost everything but what she was wearing. (After that she spent two bitter months on Bataan and Corregidor - shared our troops' life in everything but firing guns and flying planes-ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine...
...days after the Nazis seized Austria, Gedye was escorted to the border; He had offended: 1) by describing the cuffing German police had given some Austrian generals; 2) by casting doubt on a Gestapo assertion that it had arrested only 600 Austrians. In Prague Gedye continued his fight, sending bitter pieces to his papers,' writing a book (published as Fallen Bastions in England, Betrayal in Central Europe in America...
Apparently confident that the bitter protests against Pacific redeployment (TIME, Aug. 27) came only from a "fringe" of Army gripers, a War Department spokesman said last week; "The men who beat the Nazis to their knees . . . and defeated the Japanese . . . will not want to throw away the peace before we have begun keeping it." In the meantime the Army had hastily announced that no soldiers with 75 points and no ground forces men over 37 years of age would be sent overseas...
Thoughts of Home. China's little people, who had borne the bitter burden of resistance, heard the surrender news with heart-singing happiness. Yet it was hard to believe after so many dark years. A ricksha coolie spelled out the tidings before one of Chungking's wet wall newspapers, then mumbled, "Japan is defeated. Can we go home now?" In the streets, markets, tea houses, Government corridors the refrain echoed and re-echoed: "Japan is defeated. Can we go home...
...that you may enhance the innate glory of the Imperial State and keep pace with the progress of the world." In the homes, shops and offices of Japan the people listened. "Upon hearing his voice," reported Domei, "the 100,000,000 prostrated themselves on the ground and shed bitter tears of self-examination and self-reproach...