Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, who was pushing hard for legislation to make the Indians Christians and also to open all of their lands to squatters. Fall's laws never passed, and Collier hoped for better times under President Herbert Hoover. But in John Collier's bitter summary, "Hoover didn't give a damn about the Indians either." New Deal for Redskins. By the time the New Deal had come to Washington, Collier was the No.11 U.S. spokesman for the often exploited, inevitably neglected Indian. "Terrible Harold" Ickes, the new Interior Secretary, gave Collier...
...casually remarked. His second son Eitel Friedrich chimed in: "And you will let me have the Isle of Man, won't you?" After the Kaiser had fled to Holland, where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam. Raged his wife, sickly Kaiserin Augusta-Victoria: "Liebknecht and his harlot, Rosa Luxemburg, camped three nights in the Imperial bedroom - oh, the blasphemy...
...crucial year during which Francie Nolan (Peggy Ann Garner) ceases to be a child. It is a year during which Francie learns that her charming, drunken, incompetent father (James Dunn) may be dearly loved, but not indiscriminately worshipped. She develops, and overcomes, a stony hostility towards her bitter, pennypinching mother. She endures her father's piteous death and-in a bold, overloaded sequence-watches her mother writhe in childbed. Through such experiences, and with the help of a kind teacher, she begins to transmute her weakness for fantasy-building into the tempered imagination of a writer...
Before he departed, the Emir, an astute ruler, made a wise gift to his men: ten tons of bitter, exhilarating kola nuts from the sterculiaceous African tree. Morale soared. On kola nuts and water Katsinans can tackle anything-hunger, fatigue, forced marches, or the most vicious enemy. Roaring their traditional cry of Hau!, the kola-inspired warriors swarmed down the Kaladan Valley, won their biggest victory of the Burma...
...came back as he had promised, through 4,000 miles-and 35 months. Far behind now lay the bitter campaign across New Guinea, the dashing leapfrog drive along the 1,500-mile north coast. Still fresh in the memory of his soldiers was the landing in force on Leyte, the swift lancing drive to Mindoro and Marinduque, the dazzling, varied attack that had baffled and finally paralyzed the Jap on Luzon...