Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifty-five-year-old Author Boyd (Drums, Roll River, Bitter Creek, etc.) died last Feb. 25, of a heart attack, at Princeton, N.J., where he was pursuing his war work. The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), which he founded, strove to counter the enemy's propaganda...
...those of us who were not so unfortunate as Thomas or Wilson, the emotions I could not feel at the time later take on an added significance. Too often it is a bitter significance, because so many of the things we hear from home make all this seem so hopelessly fruitless, so terribly futile...
...World. Curtin had not been in that office long when the world moved in on him and on Australia. First it was the Japs, a bitter disillusionment with the British at Singapore, a gripping fear. Then it was the Americans-and America...
...Communists. Pronounced their little, bespectacled leader, Palmiro Togliatti, recently returned from a long exile in Moscow: The "monarchical question" must be "shelved in the interests of national unity" and the war against Germany. Philosopher Benedetto Croce then expressed willingness to serve in a coalition government. Count Carlo Sforza, most bitter critic of the tarnished House of Savoy, also appeared ready to go along. At week's end the six-party junta, without enthusiasm, accepted the King's decision. This week Vittorio Emanuele accepted the resignation of Pietro Badoglio's Royalist Cabinet, ordered the Premier to form...
...DeVoto then launched one of the most bitter and unprovoked attacks in the history of U.S. literature...