Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German offensive once more sweeps forward and the scene of battle is again shifted to the Marne. On the very ground where the first great drive on Paris was turned, the Allies slowly give their ground. After four years of bitter struggle Germany is still able to concentrate forces and push her enemies back. The drive of the spring of 1918 must be regarded as one of the great wonders...
...concentrated on the western front. There remain but a few divisions in Roumania, only one in Palestine, and none whatever in Mesopotamia or on the Italian front. The war must be decided in the west, where great armies are drawn up. We have resigned ourselves to a long and bitter struggle. It is through the long process of attrition, of wearing Germany out by sheer destruction of numbers, that the final victory is to be won. Serious as the events of the immediate past have been, they afford no basis for despondency. When interpreted in this light, they act rather...
There is another aspect which is closely connected with Germany's imperial policy and which perhaps furnishes an answer to such an unprecedented demand. It is Germany's aim to expand. Dutch occupation of the rich territory at the mouth of the Rhine has long been a bitter obstacle to German expansion and trade. A triumphant Germany seems, therefore, to turn upon another victim. The gain of transporting war supplies through Holland is practically negligible. In demanding what she has, Germany has merely forced Dutch neutrality to a point where it must...
...though still supreme on the sea, would be unable to attack the enemy at any point, and so, baffled, must acknowledge defeat. Temporary as this would be, for the world can never see a victorious Germany as long as men exist to bear the fight, nevertheless, years more of bitter struggle and destruction would surely follow before we could ever retrace our steps to even the point where...
When we speak of the "ironies of history," we usually think of something bitter. Sometimes there are pleasant ironies. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a letter written in 1870, describes the amazement of Harvard College over its new President, who was so different from its preconceived idea of what a college president should...