Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground for the first Tokyo strike was Dauntless Dottie, piloted by Major Robert K. Morgan, onetime skipper of the famed B-17 Memphis Belle. Riding with him was the task-force commander, 38-year-old Brigadier General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., a veteran of the long, bitter delaying action early in the war when a handful of U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to Australia...
...disposing of some $75 billion in surplus materials, is expected to be Iowa's lame-duck Senator, Guy M. Gillette. (He cannot be appointed till his present term expires.) The Senate will probably approve him. But it would be no sinecure-already the Board has stirred up one bitter fight which caused the President to drop his first choice for chairman, Defense Plant Corp. President Sam H. Husbands (TIME...
...beleaguered Bataan and Corregidor, Annalee shared the troops' experience in everything but firing guns and flying planes. She ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine-stuck it out with our boys for two bitter months. You may remember Jacoby's on-the-spot reports on how the Japs dished it out and our men took it as some of the most vivid, angry reporting ever to appear in the pages of TIME & LIFE...
...made a deep impression on the 61-year-old prelate. In London, speaking to a gathering of Canadian servicemen, he had said: "This war is a fight to the bitter end for the vindication of human rights and the preservation of Christian civilization. That conviction has increased by what I have seen in Italy, in Belgium and in Holland of Nazi barbarism, and by the tales I have heard from unimpeachable witnesses-tales that shock and anger. . . . We are deeply grateful to you for having joined with our other Allies in waging a war overseas...
...pulling troops out of the city under cover of the long nights and thick weather. Some were left behind, to fight for time. They depressed the muzzles of antiaircraft guns against the attackers, and fired on them with guns from crippled U.S. tanks. On the airfield there was a bitter battle from hangar to hangar, from room to room of the barracks...