Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest shipbuilder for the eighth straight year. Even more enticing were some future prospects held out to the Japanese delegation in Moscow. The Soviets professed a desire to buy big amounts of Japanese steel, tubing and mining equipment. Playing on Japanese worries that the U.S. will impose ever harsher quotas on Japanese textiles, Moscow also talked of importing $500 million worth of Japanese cotton goods...
...which President Kennedy brought up the subject of stockpiling that sent a shudder last week through metal centers from the aluminum mills of California to the copper mines of the Congo. In harsher language than he usually uses at his press conferences, the President implied that the nation's 23-year-old war-emergency stockpiling program was chockablock with "mismanagement" and "unconscionable profits" and demanded a congressional investigation. On Wall Street, copper, lead, zinc and aluminum stocks softened, and futures in metals and rubber nosed down...
...think this is an instructive list. During this same period we have on occasion said things as harsh or harsher about political figures or government policies in Britain, France, West Germany, Italy. Canada, Brazil, Japan, Belgium, Australia, Mexico (among many others) without being censored. And there are those who might argue that political figures in the U.S. are often the most unhappy of all about what we say about them. In the end we (and other journalists) count on the reliability of our reporting and the responsibility of our writing to make our case as best...
...sneering allusions in the Soviet press to "fanatics of the Talmud," who practice "cruelty rituals." In August Kiev's humorous monthly Perets (Pepper) lumped Jews, Nazis and Konrad Adenauer together in a grotesque front-page cartoon that placed the swastika inside the Star of David. Then came a harsher reminder. To jail last month, for sentences ranging from three to twelve years, went a respected leader of Leningrad Jewry, Gedalia Pechersky, 60, along with five other prominent Leningrad and Moscow Jews...
...seeking a martyr. Weary of delicacy and complexity in foreign affairs, they are, like Senator Goldwater, willing to assert that the cold war can be brought to a quick and satisfactory conclusion if only it is fought by men whose appearance is tougher and whose speech is harsher than Kennedy's, or Stevenson's, or Arthur Dean's. The reaction to General MacArthur's recall has shown how powerful a weapon against liberal treatment of diplomatic and military policy the victimized general can be. He has had too many guts, too much backbone, he must be dispensed with...