Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within the privacy of his White House office, the President assiduously searched for some common ground with his critics. One evening he played host to a dozen Democratic Senators, ten of whom face re-election next year. Among them were some of his harshest opponents on the war, but Johnson was eminently conciliatory, assuring them that he bore no grudges and wanted to do all he could to help them win reelection...
...most tolerant in permitting liberalization to flourish, has recently returned to a pattern of repression. It is preparing not only to discipline Czechoslovakia's "unruly" writers, but also to take back a good deal of what it has conceded in other fields as well. In one of his harshest speeches in years, President Antonin Novotny recently warned that the party would not tolerate "the spread of liberalism, pacifism, recklessness and frivolity." Toughening Up. Last week Novotny's regime moved to take away some of the prerogatives that it had granted Czechoslovakian industries earlier this year. By giving factory...
...football hall of fame in Canton. It has been similarly attentive to the locally based Timken Roller Bearing Co., world's largest tapered roller-bearing manufacturer. "I can't remember the Rep ever speaking out against anything the Timken family wanted," says a Canton businessman. About the harshest criticism leveled at the Ports mouth (Ohio) Times, according to Editor George W. Stowell, comes from "mothers who are upset when we fail to cover Little League baseball games...
...some observers to South Viet Nam to witness the election process at firsthand. More than willing, Johnson announced at midweek that 20 Americans had been invited to go. The group includes six Senators and Governors, plus an assortment of mayors, labor and civil rights leaders, businessmen and clergymen. The harshest critic of Johnson's policies in Viet Nam-Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-politely declined the invitation...
...told a press conference. "Eventually they'll get around to talking about a student court. But I've seen such a thing in operation at other schools and, let me tell you, it can be disastrous. Students can blithely hand down judgments on their peers that even the harshest faculty committee would consider outrageous...