Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night was bitter cold. Turks had turned in. Only a few lovers and elderly insomniacs were awake to hear the strange restlessness of animals. Dogs sat up and howled, cattle pawed in their stalls, fowls flapped their wings...
Near Lake Kianta the Russians threw their entire 163rd Division into battle, trying again to break through Finland's waist. In a bitter two-day battle the Finns "cut to pieces" the 163rd, pursued its remnants into the forests and toward the frontier...
...Push. Last week Joseph Stalin adopted a new method in his month-old effort to conquer the Finns. Up to the Mannerheim Line he moved more and heavier artillery, including some "Little Berthas" and fresh troops from Siberia and the Caucasus, trained for bitter-weather fighting. To launch his new offensive he sent 38-year-old General Gregory Stern, who until recently was commander of Soviet forces in the Far East, gave the Japanese a good trouncing at Changkufeng. (His grocer brother Morris, unearthed in a Los Angeles suburb last week, said: "I don't like it. Finland...
Personal and harshly bitter though the book is in essence, it sets up with uncommon sensuous clarity a country and a people: Ogden's father, in one of the few gentle gestures of his life, caressing his mother's new grave with the flat of his shovel; "a fat untidy young woman, loose around the waist as a sack of duck feathers"; a man who, catching his wife in adultery, "fired a shot into the ceiling, and then he began to weep, assuring Jinny he wouldn't hurt a hair of her head...