Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Guard, it was a bitter loss. Two pitchers had shared the visitors' mound duty and pitched as well as Wallace but failed to nail down the last man. Added to the astonishing facts of the victory was the decision to call the game at the end of the fourteenth...
...sweet a triumph for winner Jack Wallace as it was bitter for the pair of Coast Guard moundsmen. Through 14 innings of scoreless ball, Wallace allowed only four hits, walked only seven, while striking out 15. Although the defense behind him was somewhat shaky at the start, it tightened up considerably in the later innings...
...also because he holds the unquestioned balance of power on foreign policy in the Senate. But with his new prestige, and despite the fact that all but four of his 17 Senate years have been spent as a member of the minority, he is neither exultant nor bitter nor disillusioned. He is the "loyal opposition" at its best...
...Russians were on the main spokes of the wheel of Chaussees and wide Strassen that led to the hub at Alexander Platz. From Weissensee and Pankow they bit in toward the big Sportspalast, where Adolf Hitler had recited much of the history that now had turned to bitter dust...
...incredibly tough fighting remained. In northern Luzon strong Jap forces, bountifully supplied from their Aparri base, were holding their mountain lines before Baguio. The weary 25th Division in Balete Pass won and lost a single hill four times; after four weeks' bitter fighting it had managed to gain 1,000 yards. Thirty-third Division troops fought artillery duels with Japs snugly hidden in caves on mountain slopes. Bit by bit both divisions worked closer to their objectives. On Mindanao the slow cleanup of Zamboanga peninsula continued. Davao, the excellent port and key area of the second largest island...