Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side, tearful Finns quoted an old Nordic saying: "Sorrows are our reins, bad days our bridle." On the other, the Russians laughed, drank beer, slapped each other's backs, praised their Red Army "defenders." But among the friends and foes of each side there was a bitter search for reasons, a hunt for scapegoats, a vindictive beating back & forth of the shuttlecock of blame...
...politics-was growing yearly. Most Irishmen were Democrats, and after the Civil War Irish-run political machines kept the Democratic Party alive in the North. They virtually elected Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. Secretary of State John Hay forever claimed that his hands were tied by bitter Irish anti-British sentiment, and it was the Irish voter who not only forced Cleveland to take a strong stand against Great Britain in the Venezuelan crisis of 1895-96 but who also helped to prevent a U. S.-British alliance in the Far East...
...less potent to the world, but at home Stalin could be made to appear a conquering hero, having won the U. S. S. R.'s first outside fight since its formation. The Germans would again enjoy a solid rearguard of neutrals. And the Allies would again savor the bitter hopelessness of trying to be the moral and political chaperones of a part of the world they cannot get an Army into...
...Arabs had won a glorious victory in the British Parliament, and it was a bitter day for those many Jews who had labored so that-as Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann once put it-"Palestine should be just as Jewish as America is American and England is English." Malcolm Macdonald had passed his test...
...Russian capitalist": far north in Petsamo where the snow is still six feet deep-wherever the little country was being pressed by the big, there Finns were still taking more blood than they gave. But by week's end, the lesson of a bitter, irrevocable arithmetic-170,000,000 Russians, 3,800,000 Finns-was almost taught...