Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe drained off slowly into peace. Until five days after the official surrender there was still skirmishing by Germans too afraid of peace to submit. Then the Russians closed in, and the bitter-end Germans burrowed into forest and mountain hideouts. The fight had at last gone from the Wehrmacht...
...Pietro's record of combat, its eye for terrain and for weather, its recognition of war as a science both wonderful and tragically inexact, are at least equal to any seen in films so far. But its great distinction is its constant, bitter, admiring, pitying awareness of human beings...
...Iolanthe" must rank high on any Savoyard's list of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Packed with good tunes and breathtaking lyrics, it is also a social satire at times as bitter and biting as the early novels of Evelyn Waugh. In short, "Iolanthe" is as difficult to perform successfully as it is easy to make entertaining...
...fact seemed to be that the market was well over any reconversion jitters. Now that the shift from war to peace-had started (see Transition), the medicine was not as bitter as it had looked in the bottle...
Worrywarts gloomed that the market might not perform as expected, because it seldom has, during the war. For example, when the fall of the Philippines forecast a long, bitter war, the market started up. Reason: the war was bound to bail out many a floundering company. Stocks fell soon after Dday, at the prospect of an early peace, fell again when U.S. troops jumped the Rhine. President Roosevelt's death gave them a lusty boost (TIME, April 23). Perversely, in the fa ce of an end to the German war, they have risen ever since...