Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Classics Department, Associate Professor Philip W. Harsh will teach as a visiting lecturer on loan from Stanford University for a term beginning officially June 17. He received his Ph.D. at Chicago...
There were harsh words and bruised feelings quickly soothed, like Argentina's when she walked out, miffed at having missed a vice presidency. There was the poor, estranged relative waiting in the vestibule-Austria, whose bid to come in was turned down "with a note of sympathy." There was an inevitable sponger, Russia, who couldn't come herself but sent word by two neighbors, Czechoslovakia and Poland, that she could use a share of the League's leftover funds. There were bustling busybodies, unable to get their minds off last-minute arrangements, like China with her demand...
...Friendly Neighbors." Grave, greying Anthony Eden gave Bevin the full backing of the Conservatives. Bevin had more challenges from the 40-odd Labor backbenchers who think he is too harsh on Russia than he got from the Tory opposition. He answered them by wheeling round to face his own side of the House as he said: "You cannot carry out a foreign policy on a very narrow and limited basis, neither can you alter history by a slogan...
...said he. The thief of his serenity, deposed the editor-critic-raconteur-philologist's petition, was a dog next door who passed his life barking-a "large, powerful male dog of breed or breeds unknown to your orator." The barking, pursued Mencken, was "abnormally and extraordinarily loud, harsh, penetrating, violent, unpleasant, and distracting." He prayed that the court would compel his neighbor to take dog and bark away. The court gave Dog Owner Charles Fortenbaugh 15 days for a neighborly answer...
Last week the American Military Government banned all trading in I. G. securities, set a harsh penalty of $10,000 fine and/or five years' imprisonment for any violation. Said one U.S. official: "The Germans are betting that Farben will come back. We are going to prove...