Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British press, as if a little ashamed of its earlier behavior, paused to recall how much the U.S. had already done for Britain; the U.S. press reminded itself of the harsh fact that, if Britain went down in economic distress, dragging the great sterling bloc of nations with her, the U.S. economy would be sorely shaken, the free world's defenses critically weakened. Dean Acheson in Washington and Ernest Bevin in London argued that the need to maintain U.S.-British unity must influence economic decisions...
...would be harsh medicine, but U.S. policymakers will do their best to make Britain agree to swallow...
...Spellman-Roosevelt controversy [TIME, Aug. 1]: as a Catholic, and as an American, I am in full accordance with the views of the cardinal. There are many Catholics, however, who feel that he was unduly harsh...
...London with its "leagues of lights"; he roamed the streets in horror that the seething crowds he found there would soon be lying horizontal underground. Like the middle class whose poet he became, Tennyson spent most of his life in a vague struggle to soften, to disavow the harsh materialism of mines and factories that made the wealth of England and killed her poor in slums; to cling to the beauty of the spirit and to belief...
...vote, San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House trustees decided to eat their harsh words banning Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad from an autumn engagement. Without her, it seemed, the box-office outlook was too dark. In Salzburg, where she was still as popular as in prewar days, Flagstad magnanimously announced: "I will accept the invitation . . . despite the incident...