Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no use hiding our heads in the sand," cried the Senator. "People in the South are so bitter . . . that they will never accept him as a candidate. I wish very much that he would sense the situation and withdraw." He predicted that the Democratic Party would be "cut to ribbons" in November if Truman were its standard bearer, and urged the nomination of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.*The President, who had firmly announced his candidacy a fortnight ago (TIME, March 15), made no comment...
...Student League for industrial Democracy, our parent organization, in the years previous to World War II, learned the hard way of the bitter fruit of cooperation with Communists in the anti-conscription movement. We wish no repetition of that error, we are fully aware of the results of odious miscegenation with Communists or their sympathizers...
...succeeded by a shrieking little man named Nikolai Yezhov, who wanted to get back at the world for the years he had spent in bitter poverty. He began his reign by purging the ranks of the NKVD, successor to the OGPU. Next he purged Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and practically the entire High Command of the Red Army. He gave his name to two of the Red Terror's maddest years (1936-38), the "Yezhovshchina." In the Yezhovshchina, the most fantastic denunciations were accepted at face value by the NKVD; no one was safe. Terror was completely indiscriminate, torture equal...
...fight with Moher had been in the offing all evening. Eventually one particularly bitter scrimmage in front of the Yale cage broke into fisticuffs, whereupon the tardy Messrs. McDonell and Crovat penalized both players. But contrary to general practice, they failed to escort them from the ice, and fighting broke out again when Moher replied to a harmless remark from Abbot by hitting him with his stick...
...about Critic Brown's own children, asked Publisher (Parents' Magazine, True Comics) George Hecht. "They have been so corrupted by you," said bitter father Brown, "that they love them...