Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What happens this year in respect to our foreign policy," he said, "will determine our post-war policy completely. The nation at the present time in divided into the bitter camps of neo-isolationism and interventionism. The latter group is now the most potent group, comprising 75 percent to 80 percent of the people is all sections of the country...
...unusual to find men returning from overseas who become a little bitter on the subject of the attitude of civilians at home. That is understandable. ... I want to pay a tribute to the working men & women . . . for the way they have unceasingly and uncomplainingly carried on ... to management for the results that they have produced ... to the citizens of Canada for the way they have responded to war loans, Red Cross drives and the many other demands made upon their loyalties and emotions. . . . [Many] have given vast sums of money to back up in a mute way . . . the war effort...
Almost forgotten in the flurry of speculation was the appointment of the new Fleet Commander: puffy-faced, 59-year-old Soemu Toyoda, a skilled naval technician, who had thus far sat this war out in and near Tokyo, cannily managed to be known as a bitter-end jingo...
Into the Depths. Since Corregidor two long years have passed. Fresher violences have obscured the memory of Wainwright, the men who fought with him and the bitter story of national humiliation...
...Bataan troops had a joke. They wanted a message sent to the States: "Dear Mr. Roosevelt - Our P-40 is full of holes. Please send us a new one." Desperate, bitter men began to sing...