Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wishful predictions, that the Franco regime seemed fatter and more secure than ever. In Poland, John Scott (TIME'S Berlin bureau chief) found a shaky but surprisingly energetic prosperity. From China, TIME'S Nanking Correspondent Frederick Gruin told no story of prosperity, but one of lean and bitter struggle and inevitable retribution. The reports...
...After ten bitter weeks, the Senate confirmed David E. Lilienthal as chairman...
...lone cell in the grey prison building, was bitter with a special German kind of bitterness. Granted a stay of execution, Otto Striegel snapped: "Why wasn't I hanged with my comrades...
This last act of the bitter farce of Hungarian postwar democracy had been predicted by Rakosi. When, in the free elections of January 1946, Nagy's Smallholders' Party had got 59% of the votes against only 17% for the Communists, Rakosi had growled: "The story has just begun . . . watch what happens later...
...Like many U.S. soldiers, Burns was shocked out of his complacency by the war. Gallery is a clear measure of his distaste for the bad manners of American troops, their black marketeering, their thoughtlessly insulting treatment of Europeans. His portraits of promotion-hungry, rear-echelon officers are often bitter and embarrassingly accurate...