Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather had been as good for seven days as it was for three, last week would have been an Allied airman's dream week. Even in spotty weather air power dealt the Germans bitter blows...
...Budapest the Germans fought to the bitter end long after it had become tactically unimportant. How much the city had suffered was not told, but it could not have escaped vast damage. The first of the satellite capitals to feel war's destruction, it stood this week as a monument to the Germans' readiness to sacrifice somebody else's possessions, and to the Russians' complexity of attack...
...very end of the bitter campaign for Leyte, the Japs kept at their old tricks. The jig was up, but still some of them filtered into a regimental command post of the 32nd Division on a foully dark night. Their helmets were daubed with phosphorous paint for identification. But in close-quarter brawls, many helmets were knocked...
...bitter confusion of the German breakthrough the Army clamped down a censorship thicker than the pea-soup fog that shrouded the great German counterattack. Communiqués were as much as 48 hours behind the event. When they came they were meager and vague. Correspondents blew...
Says deep-voiced Prince Orizu: "The type of education that is safe for our peace is the education that has no bitterness." His recently published Without Bitterness (Creative Age, $3) throws some bitter sidelights on the intellectual darkness of his native continent. The illiterate Nigerian man-in-the-jungle outnumbers his educated brother by more than ten to one. Orizu believes that only universal free education can help to stem the growing spirit of revenge in his long-exploited continent ("Can it be that my Africa is without brothers...