Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S correspondent wired: "Wallace has become a bitter, dour man with a developing persecution complex. He would like to succeed to the mantle of Roosevelt but he does not know how to meet the common man whom he champions. His manner repulses people, and he in turn gets more & more resentful. He is a bore. His speeches sometimes put people to sleep. He is completely humorless...
...very odd coincidence, something went terribly wrong with this mixture: the cement began to harden before it could be poured, and all hands had to get it out of the machine by brute force. Now & then the picture faintly approximates the iron sadness and bitter glamor which Remarque tried for in his novel; most of the time the deep grimness of the subject and the schmalziness of its exploitation get embarrassingly in each other...
...bizone and you will surely say, it must the awfully to live there, but life in the east-zone is twice so badly. For the money you get on the black-market in Leipzig one bread, you get in the bizone four and you see yourself, where life grown bitter, though in the bizone are much more displace persons than in the Russain zone, because an enormous part of our harvest is brought to Russia. On the end I must yet once say, that all I wrote, is the only truth and you must not think that I hate...
...with a sword. In a whirlwind week they seized Haifa, attacked Jaffa, won Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee and tried to cut the Arab supply road into Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field. Said Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "We stand on the eve of the Jewish State . . . heartened by the victories of our army . . . We have just begun to buckle on the sword...
...savagely criticized for his failure while commander in chief in the northeast. Screams rose for his execution. "We must restore morale with a man's head . . ." Many pleaded for the arming of village militia-why did not the government trust the people? A Kirin man recited a bitter song sung by "abused, ill-equipped local forces." The song...