Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Sept. 7 article on Governor-elect Barnett displayed the same one-sided, prejudiced, narrow-minded view that characterized the campaign. We do not ask you to excuse us, only seek to understand us, and write about us with intelligence and objectivity. Being a liberal here is hard enough without articles and attitudes that display the same bitterness we are fighting...
...both Parliament and the press there was an immediate outcry. "What action is being taken against the people who beat Podola unconscious?" shouted Laborite Reginald Paget in the House of Commons. Hard-bitten Fleet Street reporters chipped in to pay for Podola's defense. But when the time came for Podola's trial last week, it was neither police brutality nor ordinary insanity at the time of the crime that was offered as Podola's defense. Instead, Defense Counsel Frederick Lawton, Q.C., argued that "a very, very severe fright," possibly triggered by the events of Podola...
Despite his outstanding performance as Lin's successor in Korea, hard-boiled Peng Teh-huai's rigid sense of discipline long ago got him into trouble with the commissars, notably China's No. 2 man, Liu Shao-chi, who raked him over the coals for reducing his junior officers to "ineffective yes men." Best guess as to the reason for Peng's ouster last week is that he has been too vocal in his resentment of Peking's decision late last year to put his army to work building dams, raising pigs and harvesting crops...
...with Duplessis. He named a press attache "so the public can quickly be informed.'' And he quickly began to use his talent for delegating authority and work, much in contrast to his predecessor. Summed up Le Devoir: "Under Duplessis, there were 20. ministers looking at one man hard at work; today, there is one man looking at 20 ministers hard at work...
...people most involved will say privately that this was not the whole reason. According to them, the new Faculty-members who had begun laying definite plans for the Program decided that passage of the resolution could be best assured by avoiding discussion of specifics. It would be very hard, of course, to prove that such a strategem was ever consciously planned and carried out; but this report typifies the atmosphere of intrigue--and suspicion of intrigue--in which the Program has so far grown...