Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First the Present. Confesor had been realistic enough not to let his dreams for the future interfere with the harsh needs of the present. For the Filipinos he had scheduled first the plain, hard job of rebuilding bridges, highways, railroads, schools, re-establishment of banking and retail trade, restoring the administrative functions of civil government...
...Causes. Why had liberation and victory brought a crisis in food which the Germans had managed to stave off? There were many reasons. The Germans had managed European agriculture as a whole, introduced some improved methods, distributed food with a harsh, discriminatory-but efficient-hand. Even so, by D-day European food production was already running down for lack of phosphates, tractors, fuel, transport, manpower. After D-day disorganization mounted, European transport disintegrated, the German armies took horses to save fuel, and greatly reduced the working power of European farmers...
...months ago, the office atmosphere around KSL was tense and strained. One producer was finding the violin's E string unbearably harsh. Another was continually having arguments with the sound engineer. One station employe kept beefing about the sound effects. Mr. Gates examined the hearing of the entire staff...
There were other harsh words on the Senate floor. When North Carolina's Josiah William Bailey sought to apply the principle of the May-Bailey bill to the Senate's hodge-podge affair, he was soundly beaten. Bitterly he said: "Cologne fell today. Our soldiers may have to go on through Germany. Let them go, with the understanding that here at home we will do just as we please...
...Rundstedt had to pull men and arms from the north to meet the Remagen threat, yet he still had to man 150 miles of the Rhine and be ready to fight a crossing anywhere. It was this harsh stretching of Rundstedt's already paper-thin manpower that led some experts in Washington to say that Remagen had shortened the war by six to eight weeks...