Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrial Detroit seethed with bitter squabbles. "Work stoppages" constantly interrupted production of direly needed war goods...
...Main Problem. But the Generalissimo's optimism was tempered by his frank admission that "the Communist problem ... is the main problem to unity and constitutional government." He gave his Government's position in its bitter, dead locked negotiations with the Communists...
...Opposition. Mr. King conceded that the dying sessions of Parliament "are rarely constructive, and the debates are generally controversial and bitter. In view, however, of the special character of the forthcoming session, it is hoped that all parties will cooperate in the speedy discharge of essential business...
...everything, was stern and ambitious ("I want a big house," he said when he was married. "My ideas, my schemes are big. Very ambitious and very, very big"). Griselda, his beautiful wife, was afraid of him. Rolls's older sister Selina, who never married, was possessive, bitter and tyrannical. She ruled the house when her parents died. Pelham, Rolls's brother, was too inhibited to display his real emotions. Rolls himself never did anything he really wanted to do. It was the family that finally pushed him into the army...
...cold as Ohio at this season. The front line now has moved out of the tropics into a region of high winds and long periods without sunshine. Soon, U.S. fighting men will long for the dear old steaming jungles and sun-baked atolls. All through this bitter night the Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets and artillery on the entire area between the beach and the airfield. Twice they hit casualty stations on the beach. Many men who had been only wounded were killed. The command post of one of the assault battalions got a direct hit which killed several...