Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program unexceptionable-what there was of it. And there was nothing in it that most Republican leaders had not already endorsed. But a loud denunciation came from Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, who has his own, mathematically rigid plan for world peace. Said he: "The plan will prove a bitter disappointment to the internationalists, who are determined that this time the U.S. shall not cheat the world; and to the nationalists, who are equally determined that this time the world shall not cheat the U.S." Historian Dr. Charles A. Beard added dryly: "Given the state of the world at the present...
...chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
...Nazis' reaction was small-scale and local, but swift and bitter. Infantry and tanks of the 77th, ordered to withdraw-when it was too late, tried to fight their way through the 9th's roadblock. The U.S. commander honored them with a "serenade": every gun within range opened up at maximum rate of fire. The carnage chilled even the victors' marrow. But the enemy's attempted sortie failed...
...Heroes. Isigny was bombed and shelled because German troops were there. French ships shelled it. The day after Isigny fell, it was a mass of rubble and all business had stopped. The people were appalled by what had happened, but they understood that it was war. They were not bitter...
Deprived of his bitter social implications, the Ape bums and blasts his way through a rudderless melodrama. Deprived of his ferocious eloquence, thanks doubtless to censorship, he talks like a tough guy who is trying not to shock his grandmother. Deprived of his tragic ending, he becomes, in retrospect, a not very convincing sailor ashore. Unfortunately, his screen creators have tried to compensate for these deficiencies by making him funny...