Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winning? In the fight, some bitter suspicions developed. The Army accused Hopkins & Co. of trying to give away too much. Marvin Jones argued that, after the Army, U.S. civilians should get the next best slice of the U.S. foodpile. At week's end, there were reports that General Eisenhower had cabled for more food for French and Belgian civilians...
...know we cannot win the war. What with your sickening, gottverdammtes advantage in numbers of men and weight of arms, we may not be able to put up much resistance on the flat plains of northern Germany. But you can plainly see the bitter, skillful, grinding fight which we are putting up in Italy, where the terrain favors us. What will you do when you have driven us into our last great bastion, anchored on the high Alps from Salzburg to Lombardy? The terrain will then favor us on all sides, and we will make any attackers pay a hideous...
...tempo of Russian attack east of Berlin hung at a sullen, persistent roar. After a week's bitter fighting the Germans claimed that: 1) they still held the essential battlements of Küstrin, which Marshal Joseph Stalin had declared captured; 2) the battered keystones of their Oder River defense line still stood...
Three weeks of battle as bitter as any the world has known had raged on Iwo Jima, drenching its black ash beaches, ravines and cliffs in blood. The Japanese garrison was being squeezed into an ever smaller band around the northern shore, but it was fighting with D-day savagery. Its commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, was still in radio contact with Tokyo. Most of the defenders had ample food and water (although some isolated positions had been short of water in the first days of the campaign). They had only a few mortars and cannon left, but they used...
This little exchange of amenities did not mean that 27 years of bitter feuding had ended. The air still zinged with individual sniper's bullets, and a real Kremlin-Vatican friendship was as remote as ever -but last week the prospects for some sort of truce had progressed beyond the rumor stage...