Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three Middle Eastern potentates on a U.S. warship in Great Bitter Lake (see INTERNATIONAL...
...left Yalta, and journeyed by road to Sevastopol, where there are many ruins, and flew on the wings of his Army to the land of Egypt. And there he took ship and received the rulers of that land, and of Ethiopia and of Saudi Arabia, on the lakes called Bitter or Mara of which it was written (Exodus...
...Palestine, since it is not an independent state, had only an "auditor" in Cairo. But the bitter question of Jewish-Arab conflicts in Palestine was high on the agenda-and here again British interests were vitally concerned...
...mentions his wife or sweetheart in New Jersey or someplace. He misses her very much. He doesn't know what to do. And then, before you know it, he says, 'We're all human, aren't we?' And when you refuse, he becomes bitter and abusive. . . . Well, it's getting to the point where I won't go out any more...
...Open City is a sensitive first novel born of bitter experience. It is a moving, convincing-and timely-account of life in a Jap internment camp, and of what happens to the characters of once easygoing civilians penned up in it. It is set in Manila's Santo Tomas camp, where almost 4,000 prisoners were freed by U.S. troops last fortnight. Author Mydans and her husband Carl, ace LIFE photographer, were imprisoned there for eight and a half months...