Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Teng's supporters were being confirmed as Politburo members, the Communist Party Central Committee announced that the long and often bitter purge of the Gang of Four, Peking's disgraced radical faction, had "in the main been completed victoriously." From now on, said the announcement, the stress will no longer be on the criticism campaign but on rapid economic growth...
...Emperor Kuang Hsu, the Chinese tried to imitate the Japanese Emperor Meiji's transformation of Japan, from feudalism in the last half of the 19th century. In the early days of Sun Yat-sen's Republican China, an effort to streamline the society with foreign help ended in a bitter failure that eventually turned China toward puritanical socialism. The Chinese, wrote Historian C.P. FitzGerald, "became disillusioned with the false gods of the West They turned restlessly to some other solution...
...question for Chiang Ching-kuo and his fellow veterans of China's Nationalist Party. More than half a century has passed since Chiang Kai-shek made the fateful decision to engage in bloody civil war with China's Communists. For nearly 22 years that bitter struggle raged back and forth across China. Many Americans perceived Chiang Kai-shek as an architect of potential stability in Asia. The disillusionment was thus especially bitter on both sides of the Pacific when Communist forces crushed Chiang's demoralized armies in 1949 and Mao proclaimed the People's Republic...
...mood was tense and bitter as Taiwan struggled to come to terms with America's virtual abandonment of its onetime ally. President Chiang Ching-kuo, 68, had only a few hours' warning of the move from U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger, who was himself startled by it. Chiang lost no time in calling an emergency Cabinet meeting, putting all military units on alert and issuing an angry statement. Carter's decision, he said, "has not only seriously damaged the rights and interests of the government and people of the Republic of China but has also tremendous adverse impact...
Elie Wiesel: once again that bitter voice of remembrance. It is like having Jeremiah or Amos in town, denouncing people for their sins. Just about everyone is stung in these pages: American Jews for not shouting loud enough when they knew what was happening in Hitler's concentration camps; European Christians for standing idly by or keeping silent against the encircling terror. Even God is indicted. The tone echoes an ancient Jewish tradition, epitomized in the fiercely mystical Hasidic teachers whose stories Wiesel tells so well, men taking issue with the Master when the universe is out of joint...