Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past six months have been bitter, partisan and have sent crashing down many of the great social gains of the past ten years-out of malice preparatory to the 1944 election. The main energy of Congress has been directed to discrediting the Administration on the home front...
...have thought with all our heart . . . that the horror and destruction of bombing should be spared our dear Rome ... the holy city of Catholicism. . . . We thought ourselves justified in hoping [for] . . . the consolation, among so many bitter experiences, of finding a reception by the contending parties of our intercession in favor of Rome. Alas, this so reasonable hope has been disappointed. . . . Our soul is touched with unusual affliction...
...power with enough to halt the Allied bombardment. Jane's All the World's Aircraft, published last week in London, foresaw "the mathematical certainty" that as Luftwaffe power declines and Allied power increases, Germany will be disarmed in the air. Ahead of the Germans is the bitter realization that the Allied air forces, not the Luftwaffe, have grasped the true meaning and use of air power...
Hardy Abe. Lincoln, the son of a lean, tired mother, was conceived during a bitter rainy spell at the end of an unusually hard Kentucky winter. All this, says Petersen, predisposed him to a lanky figure, active metabolism, fickle blood pressure and extreme sensitiveness to the environment. In the harsh winters of the Kentucky and Illinois wilderness, he grew up with strong inhibitions (developed to conserve his physical strength), tired, moody, sensitive to the weather and to men. In his sex life he was by turns passionate (he "could scarcely keep his hands off [women]") and inhibited. But the weather...
When Congress recessed, she summed up its work, dealing out pats and lumps as she saw fit. Said she: "An intransigent, unyielding, bitter-end Congress ... is confronted by an equally stubborn, unbending, unmollifying Chief Executive. . . . Members of Congress are going home for nine weeks to the grass roots. . . . One hopes that the well-manicured lawns around Hyde Park will also serve the President well this summer-as grass roots...