Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this picture is correct, then the U.S. and China will be poles apart for many a bitter, crucial year. Perhaps the best way to examine the picture is to examine Chen Li-fu. Perhaps he seems a villain not because he is one, but for two other reasons: 1) he is the Chinese whom Communists (and their U.S. friends) hate most, and 2) he symbolizes that side of China which is hardest for Americans to understand. What he represents has existed in China for 2,000 years, and will exist for many more. If Americans are going to know China...
Harmony v. Class Struggle. From the crisis of 1927, when the Chens out-organized the Communists and beat them at their own game, comes the Communists' bitter hatred of Chen Li-fu. Because of him they missed control of the world's most populous country and of East Asia...
Officials at Weld Boat House viewed the challenge with dyspeptic eye last night. Their months still carried the bitter taste of defeat at the feminine hands of a Radcliffe crew in 1945. Even a bobrassiered board from M.I.T. beat them to the Life cameraman that...
...authorities sought to bridle it with a program of ration cards, ceiling prices, warnings to hoarders and manipulators, and assurances of ample supply. But many a rice shop, in fear and protest and in the face of restless queues, stubbornly stayed shut. And unhappy Little Happiness still sang his bitter song...
...might find a bitter prophecy in a poem by Mohamed Iqbal...