Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty-odd Washington newsmen belabored the Secretary with 33 written questions, all adding up to the bitter brevity: "What the hell?" Mr. Stettinius sweated, lost his famous smile. His unspoken hope was that the San Francisco Conference would quickly consign the deal to some limbo where the mess could be conveniently forgotten...
...American medical men labored to save the injured, the mood among the survivors changed. Fear diminished. An old man who had killed his daughter wept with bitter remorse...
...lightning lunges U.S. troops invaded Cebu and Negros, the last of the larger Philippine islands. Liberation was proceeding apace. But on Luzon, where a sizable Japanese garrison was dug in. General MacArthur's men were fighting out a slow, bitter, bloody campaign...
...Cummings, author of World War I's bitter novel The Enormous Room: "Why don't our poets and painters and composers and so forth glorify the war effort? Are they Good Americans or are they not? . . . When I was a boy, Good Americans were-believe it or don't-adoring the Japanese and loathing the Russians. . . . When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet...
...Fact of War. But the bitter truth was that there was not much ODT could do. The Eastern railroads were using Western cars to keep war freight moving. Northern Pacific boxcars that should have been shunting wheat from Dakota towns to flour mills at Minneapolis were loaded with Army freight for the Pacific...