Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notions about its rough & ready rowdiness, is a country deeply endowed with moral sense. Its feelings about "decency" stem from deep roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...
After four years and $43 billion of Lend-Lease, Americans were realizing that money does not buy love. Last week's debate on the $4,400,000,000 U.S. loan in the British House of Commons showed deep British bitterness at what were called harsh U.S. terms. Britons accepted the terms because the alternative of no loan seemed worse. But they did not like...
Muttering In the Chorus. In various harsh words, other C.I.O. leaders shouted amen. John Lewis called the Truman proposal "an evil, vile-smelling mess . . . full of dozens of loopholes that would make it unworkable." Even mild Bill Green cheeped: "Unacceptable to labor...
...stare. As they had expected, he looked like an ogre-a squat, shaven-headed, simian figure in a green uniform. When prosecution witnesses told of the raping, killing and burning which Manila had endured at Japanese hands, many in the audience guessed that the verdict would be quick and harsh...
...encirclement" by the U.S., Britain and China. Churchill urged a joint warning to the Japs, wanted Roosevelt to declare that further Jap aggression would force the U.S. to take counter-measures "even though these might lead to war." The President agreed to the joint warning, boggled at the harsh Churchill phraseology...