Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter contest last term, an HLU majority ousted more radical members from executive office in a move that paralleled action taken all over the country by progressive organizations...
...C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers, once the nation's biggest, healthiest union, was in deep trouble. Its inter-union political warfare, fed by the bitter, bloody, still-unsettled Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. u), had reached the point where left-backed Vice President R. J. Thomas and right-wing President Walter Reuther were calling each other union wreckers...
...Piazza's mood was bitter toward everything official in Italy. Told that the Italian Government would straighten out matters "tomorrow," the demonstrators cried: "Why not today? Why must we always wait for a tomorrow...
...Bitter medicine was in store for the bitterly stoical Britons. Fuel rationing seemed a must from now on. Sufficient reserve stocks for next winter could not be built up without giving industry less than its full requirements. That meant that goods for domestic use would have to be cut. Some economists talked in terms of three more years of scarcity...
...streets were crowded with refugees driven to Athens from the countryside, where the bitter forces behind political slogans whipped up a violence that made reconstruction impossible...