Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cramped into tiny booths along the walls, interpreters translated his harsh Russian into four other languages. Their translations went out by short wave to small portable receiving sets (with earphones attached) which are issued to all delegates and visitors. They let the listener move about, untethered by wires. Vishinsky digressed to the Marshall Plan: ". . . The U.S. [wants] guarantees [like that] used by Mr. Shylock, when he demanded a pound of flesh...
Society Iss Nix. At first, Waugh found, the comics were steeped in an atmosphere of "toughness, of the harsh life of bums and thugs." Once publishers got the idea that comics might attract millions of child readers, the strips were scrubbed up. Replacing the often cruel Yellow Kid were sweet Buster Brown, dreamy Little Nemo, merry Little Jimmy. The Katzenjammer Kids were mean moppets, but in their rebellion against grown-up conventions they were on the children's side. As the long-suffering Inspector said: "Mit dose kids, society...
Thoroughly chilled by a strong Communist wind blowing through Europe, the President's Committee on European Reconstruction recently advocated a long-range program of economic aid to stalwart continental democracies. Mr. Averill Harriman, committee chairman, spoke in cold, harsh tones of survival. A ruthless and determined Russian drive for world domination could be stalled only by a speedy resurrection of such democratically minded nations as Germany, Austria, France, and Italy. While a 17 billion dollar loan is well-designed for the task, Mr. Harriman's enthusiasm seems to have overwhelmed his logic, for he also advises an immediate withdrawal...
...movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets the two-dimensional look of paper cutouts...
...hand and democracy on the other were every inch as far apart as they are today. The only change is that two years ago a lot of Americans did not realize how big the gap was, and now they do. For this, thanks is largely due to the harsh words and harsher politics of the Russian bosses...