Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill had reason to lower his head, glare, bark his characteristic short, harsh "rumph." He was not doing at all well in some of his dealings with the new giant of Europe, Joseph Stalin. Last week the endless battle of dissembled pressures went no better. After two more stormy sessions with Poland's distracted Premier in Exile, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Churchill found it necessary to send a second personal note to the impassive man in the Kremlin...
Names such as Mather, Gore, Winthrop are common to the plates that hung on the harsh doors. Zealous advocates of stern religion left these rooms to lead the spiritual life of the northern colonies...
...Amphibians. He needed all his self-confidence for the Solomons job. As many another middle-aged veteran was doing in the middle of a revolution in naval warfare, Turner had to write the rules as he went along. He drew his black, sardonic eyebrows down over his harsh blue eyes and went to work...
...private finance or will we persist in our present ways until the Government takes over all the banking business in America?" Unorthodox, white-haired Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland's Otis & Co. asked U.S. financiers this question this week in Financial World. He promptly answered it with harsh words for Manhattan's investment bankers, with whom he has long feuded over competitive bidding for rail road and utility issues. Said...
First Blood. Whatever Pravda meant with its "rumor from Cairo," the consequences of publication and later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many...