Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur announced that the 11th Airborne Division was in action on Leyte; in its first combat, the outfit captured a strategic mountain pass, made a junction with the 7th Division and helped mop up the enemy 26th. There was still bitter fighting to be done, and even after the island was declared secure, there would be hundreds of Japs to be dug out. But the broad strategic objective had been...
...weather last week came to the aid of Allied forces in southwestern China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
...what was more sinister-how the Gestapo would seize some man or woman in Spanish territory and take them over the frontier to death or torture in Germany or one of the occupied countries." The German poison had succeeded in corrupting moral standards, was leaving behind "corruption, bitter hatreds and vendettas...
...stiffened German resistance slowed the crunching Russians around Budapest, but they seized some of the city's chief forts in its suburbs, gained in bitter battles into which the Germans poured thrice as many men and tanks as they had previously used on those sectors...
Farther north, the 32nd Division and the 1st Cavalry Division (dismounted) were engaged in equally bitter, hand-to-hand combat, but drawing steadily closer to Valencia and a junction with the 77th. Japanese lines were beginning to crumble. But it had taken the bloodiest fighting of the second Philippine campaign to make them crumble. Leyte was not the pushover it had seemed when Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines nine weeks...