Word: harsher
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...local civil rights leaders had harsher words for the conditions which fomented the riots in the first place...
...cadet's code is far harsher than rules at civilian schools, explains Brigadier General Robert F. McDermott, dean of the faculty, "because if our cadets were to cheat and carry this attitude into the service, the consequences could be a tragedy of national or international scope." But the life of Air Force cadets, most of whom were academically tops in high school, is harder in other respects as well. Many carry 146 credit hours, compared with the 120 hours required by most state universities, are encouraged while undergraduates to take extra courses leading toward a master's degree...
...Europe, the new independence and new nationalism were made possible by an economic resurgence set in motion by a generous America at war's end. But for both Eastern and Western Europe, the current new freedom stems from the mood of detente that has dissolved many of the harsher fears of the cold...
...famed O.K. Jazz Band serenaded the honored guest with its improvised Spaak Cha Cha. As the first member of the Belgian government to visit the Congo since his country prematurely and disastrously thrust its former colony into independence, Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak might have expected far harsher words of welcome...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta took a harsher line. In the shade of a wild fig tree near Nakuru, where the 11th Battalion of his Kenya Rifles had mutinied, a military tribunal sorted out sheep from goats. Each of 500 suspects was trotted out at British bayonet point, briefly but intensely quizzed, then adjudged either "black" (an active, armed mutineer), "grey" (doubtful) or "white." (Worried about the color code's racial implications, the tribunal first tried a red-green-yellow system but found it too confusing.) All told, the tribunal tagged 100 black sheep. Kenyatta promised...