Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop Willkie. The men who would stop Willkie agreed on everything except the man who could stop Willkie. On the smear level, ex-Akron Mayor C. Nelson Sparks published a bitter polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...
...used to staying in the kitchen-dining-living room; it was the one room with a fire. He played the radio incessantly; it was "grand to hear, music again." Evenings, he and Lily visited "The Post House" across the street. He drank beer-"I still like my mild and bitter"-but his wife celebrated extravagantly with double whiskies...
...thorn in their side. We aren't serious but we hurt. The Japs are like boxers: if they take off their gloves to dig out the thorn, somebody is going to bop them right smack in the face." Supply problems alone will hold down the Fourteenth for bitter months to come...
...early night was carpeted with clouds. Beneath, within and over them, flak burst in fitful fire. It was bitter cold. The big, dark planes were sheathed in frost; the men inside them huddled freezing over instruments and guns. The sky was crowded with the ghostly bombers, growling toward Berlin...
Later they pass up their last chance to escape to Corregidor, give themselves up to the enemy at the bitter...