Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omsk Josip Broz saw the mass execution of 1,600 striking railroad workers by Tsarist Admiral Kolchak. When the Red Army reached Omsk, Josip Broz joined up. The young Croat who didn't want to fight for the Habsburgs fought through the hard, bitter years of Russia's civil wars...
...implies that President Roosevelt was the Judas of Pearl Harbor, and through Governor Bricker who implies that the war was devised to provide jobs for the jobless. These are poisonous ideas that catch on easily and break down people's determination to see this war through to the bitter...
...Bitter 'Arf. Official fanfare seemed to have convinced Londoners that the lights would really go up in Piccadilly. But the dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout...
Aside from Mr. Keaton and the delectable bears, San Diego's level is well indicated by the bitter moment in which Millionaire Hall informs Miss Allbritton that of her father's raft the only part which survived testing was the chewing-gum with which she had patched it; or Eric Blore's unctuous self-introduction to his new employer: "You may call me Nelson." To which Mr. Horton earnestly replies, in the line-of-the-month...
Spirit v. Ghost. Still Time to Die is often frankly bitter, often overemotional, occasionally theatrical (in phrases such as "Battles are merely the flashing, seductive garments that hide the passionate but terrible whore's body of war"). But it carries the conviction of a man whose spirit has been tried by seven years' intimacy with war's "dumb, bestial suffering, weariness, and utter and devastating exhaustion...