Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigation's harshest denunciation so far, Ribicoff then criticized Yorty for failing to provide leadership in the ghetto: "You are giving short shrift, and you are shortchanging a few generations by doing absolutely nothing for the disadvantaged groups." The rest of the questioning was equally acrimonious, but Yorty remained calm, his face reddening only occasionally. As he saw it, he told the subcommittee, the trouble was that "in the East they tend to look at the whole nation, look at the cities and think they are all the same. They are all different, and they have to be handled...
Johnson's inflationary domestic spending comes in for some of the harshest criticism. "Because of the political picture, Johnson is not being realistic," says Ralph Lowell, former chairman of Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. "You can't do all this spending in Government and at the same time spend for Viet Nam." President Mark Wheeler of the New England Merchants National Bank is "disenchanted" because the Government is asking business to contain spending but is not doing so itself. "It's not cricket," says he, "to have business act in a fiscally responsible manner...
...women and children clad in lava-lavas and urged on by dancing spectators, yelling, singing, and banging on kerosene drums at a well-hit ball. Badgered by papalagi (white) planters, Prime Minister Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II last week handed down the harshest decree of his six-year regime: cricket was banned (Wednesdays and Saturdays ex-cepted). To unstick the wicket as quickly as possible, the villagers set to work clearing away the hurricane rubble...
...whole new farce with La Pira. This time the unwitting agent of humiliation was his own Biancarosa. Aiming to rescue La Pira's and her husband's image, she had invited the chief editor of the rightist satirical weekly Il Borghese, one of La Pira's harshest critics, to meet the old family friend-certain that his personal charm would carry the day. The editor came to the Fanfani apartment atop Rome's Monte Mario hill, expecting the Saint to talk about "saints and santoni [sarcastically, big saints]. Instead, he started talking about politics...
...Even his harshest critics would agree that Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney has a way with words. Last week he was using that way for all it was worth...