Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dodderers & Bashi-Bazouks. In the Mirror, Bill Connor staunchly defended his handiwork: "My denunciation was harsh and bitter, for those were the harshest and bitterest days in a thousand years of our history." He disclosed that the script had even been criticized as "too mild" by a man with a reputation "more weighty than that of the author of Vile Bodies"-Winston Churchill himself. On the other hand, he argued, Waugh's "Ceremony of the Opening of the Wounds" could only hurt Wodehouse. Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse...
...London's venerable Old Bailey last week a Russian, two Americans and two Britons drew the harshest penalties ever imposed for peacetime espionage in Britain. For five years the five had been passing on to the Soviet Union secrets filched from Britain's Underwater Weapons Research Establishment at Portland-everything from nuclear-sub blueprints to the plans and specifications of Royal Navy surface warships. After eight days of testimony and less than an hour and a half's deliberation, the all-male jury found all five guilty as charged...
...Limb. In the fast-changing political climate, Adlai Stevenson was the Democrat who seemed farthest out on a limb. The first to attack the Administration for its international blunders (he spoke out even before Ike had returned from the exploded summit), Stevenson had followed through with the harshest, most persistent criticism. "The effectiveness for leadership of the present Administration in Washington has been impaired if not destroyed," he told the Textile Workers convention in Chicago. "We must make it plain that peace and disarmament are the paramount goals of our foreign policy . . . Why was total disarmament proposed last fall...
...sound scientific basis for easing tension this way. She hit upon it naturally. Some subjects never learn it.) But no matter how hard she strained her right forearm's flexor muscle, the chain began to reel out link by link, letting the weight down. Dr. Hellebrandt, in the harshest voice she could muster, snapped: "Hang on to it!" Marilyn's face was contorted in what is officially recognized as the "agony phase." She could only gasp, "I can't," and let the weight drop...
...qualities," he keeps a box for students to deposit notes (read publicly) describing their classmates' "positive" behavior. His discipline method is a point system in which a whole class is docked for individual transgressions or rewarded for individual triumphs. It is Principal Petrov's pride that his harshest punishment is sending a sinner home in midweek. Only gross insubordination, says he, moves him to invoke...