Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Army had felt that pinch, which the Germans cleverly aggravated by hanging on to France's best ports until the bitter end. For weeks the First's artillery had had to hoard its shells. For one three-day period, General Hodges' headquarters mess had had no food but captured German rations...
...Cautious Way. The First put in five days & nights of steady hammering before it got its first break. It took bitter punishment - the enemy was also good at infighting, and Courtney Hodges had to be cautious. But Hodges' men delivered hard, damaging blows, inching forward, never easing the pressure, always looking for an opening to hit where it would hurt most...
...dramatically rapid shifts of World War II, forts and defensive tactics had fallen into disrepute. But the bitter defense of Fort Driant was proving to mobility-minded U.S. soldiers that there was an uncomfortable military virtue in good defensive positions after...
...this would go down easily with most businessmen. But there was a bitter pill: Hopkins would boost the present wage-&-hour-act floor under wages from 40? an hour to "at least 50? and subsequently 60? an hour." (After the article appeared, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper drafted a Senate resolution to give the War Labor Board power to raise the floor to 65?.) This, said Planner Hopkins, smoothly ignoring all hold-the-line thinking, should bring approval from "enlightened businessmen." It would steady consumption "during the transition to peace...
...mark left on Soviet writing by the terrible months of reverses in 1941, right up until the battle for Moscow was won. In those months the writers became so closely identified with the very courage and determination which has finally beaten Hitler back that they all developed muscular, bitter, mystical, adjectival writing styles, which they still employ in the sweeter days of triumph. Those were the days when Simonove wrote Wait For Me - the words of a soldier to his wife: Wait for me, wait very hard -Never give up hope, even if they all say I am dead...