Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dispatches from a neutral source of the German frontier pointed out an apt historical parallel: Kaiser Wilhelm II's celebrated meeting with his Crown Council in August 1918, when the German war lords of that day decided that bitter, drawn-out fighting might yet weary the Allies into granting a soft peace...
...before this scheme goes into operation, every German soldier must fight to the bitter end. Count Anton added. The Götterdämmerung, which Hitler hopes will be a brief one, should not begin too soon...
General Montgomery's 21st Allied Arm group gathered itself-swiftly and accurately because its communications lines were free and open-to "hit" Rommel for another "six." At week's end, with the opposing troops still locked in bitter, indecisive battle around Caen, wry, spry, sharp-faced Monty made a quick tour of the front. He seemed satisfied with what...
...troops had been fighting inside Cherbourg for 26 hours. But on the city's perimeter were Maginot-type forts, begun by Vauban in the 17th Century, improved by Napoleon in 1808, perfected by Todt in the 1940s, which still blazed with bitter resistance. Spectacled Major General Manton S. Eddy, commander of the 9th Division, stood with one of his regimental commanders on a hillside near Octeville, on the southwest approaches to the port...
Sinews of a Nation. Coolie means "bitter strength." The bitter strength of China's coolie masses, as much as any other factor, had brought the nation unbowed 'to 1944's Double Seventh. China's soldiers (5,000,000 in all) had withstood hunger, disease, a continuous inequality of arms, commanders' inanition, retreat after retreat. Yet they had won notable defensive battles (Taierhchwang, Chang-sha), and had never finally given...