Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career. Should the Little Steel formula be broken, thus permitting pay raises above the present ceiling, including those for some 8,500,000 members of the C.I.O. and A.F. of L.? Soon the twelve usually friendly faces became grim, and tempers short; for nearly three days the bitter arguments crackled. Then the board voted 8-to-4 against breaking the formula. On to the President, as usual, went the responsibility...
Pocket Amphibians. But progress this way was slowed by bitter resistance. Another Canadian force knifed through the German pocket at its weakest point, and bisected it, reaching the Scheldt at Terneuzen. The design was to jump off from Terneuzen and land among the Germans downstream, creating a bridgehead within a bridgehead. Amphibious equipment could not be brought up the river, under the guns of German batteries at Breskens and Flushing, and had to be improvised on the spot...
Then both he and Hitler's Nazi war machine began their slow, bitter descent...
Said New York's Bishop William T. Manning: "What China needs from us is not criticism or meddling in her internal affairs, but understanding, sympathy and sorely needed material and military supplies. Whatever the reason, it is the bitter truth that only a pitifully small amount of aid has been furnished to China by the United States and the British Commonwealth of Nations...
Democratic elements realize that the present Government must be changed to a less military and more political one. But they are afraid to precipitate a change, because it might give the Communists a chance to stage a coup. Cold, hungry people are bitter people, easily incited to action, and many Rumanians this winter are likely to be both cold and hungry...