Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deliberately, they wooed the enemy by talking tough. Potsdam provided the lure; the military men spelled out the harsh alternative. Boomed the big brass...
...splitting of the already weakened Jap forces meant that the Philippine campaign was close to its end. A captured Jap war correspondent said that the remaining troops were so poorly armed and so near starvation that only iron discipline backed by harsh courts-martial kept them in the firing line. He reported that soldiers fought and often murdered comrades for food. U.S. patrols found growing evidence of cannibalism...
...Senate's hard-hitting Mead Committee (onetime Truman Committee) had harsh words this week for the way the reconversion program is being run. In its fourth annual report, the committee said flatly that the change to civilian goods is not proceeding as rapidly as it should. There is "delay in announcing and making cutbacks, lack of both raw and semifinished materials and tools, insufficient in formation available for industry to make plans far enough in advance, and lack of manpower in some key places. . . ." The committee laid some of the blame on former OWMBoss Fred Vinson (now Secretary...
...marines who took Iwo Jima last March called the eight-square-mile volcanic island a beachhead in hell. Sulfur fumes belched from fissures in the steaming rocks. Rumbling noises echoed from the bowels of the harsh, scarred earth. Ugly Iwo cost 22,000 casualties, including 5,445 killed...
...editorial board of Christianity and Crisis, a bi-weekly journal which Reinhold Niebuhr started in 1941 to fight pacifist religious views, came to much the same conclusions: the war might be shortened "if we were to state the conditions of peace, however harsh, in clear terms and thus . . . prevent the militarists from using the fear of annihilation as their final resource of power over the nation...