Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentina the Government is steadily approaching the classic Fascist state. Fortnight ago it dissolved "all political parties existing in the whole territory of the nation." Last week it tightened previous gags on the press, laying down harsh regulations for newspapers, magazines, books, radio, movies and theaters. They can publish nothing which the Government does not like, must make room for all official propaganda. Restrictions on foreign correspondents were also tightened; reliable news from Argentina will be increasingly hard...
Next day Sponsor Landon seemed to need a sponsor himself. During a brief stay in Washington, he had passed harsh judgment on Cordell Hull's Moscow achievements-so harsh, in fact, that Hearst's N.Y. Daily Mirror rejoiced: "To use Mr. Landon's own expressive word again, the Moscow conference was a 'cheat'. . . . We need more of the Landon type of outspoken courage today." Some Republicans felt they could do with a bit less of it, and ex-President Herbert Hoover gallantly came to Mr. Landon's rescue. "The Governor did not take...
Whether or not they were affected by this affecting farewell, the public and William Drought Cox's few friends in baseball were virtually unanimous: the ex-owner of the Phillies was wrong; the rule was right; organized baseball was harsh but just in barring him from the game forever. Cox's crime: he had made "a few small and sentimental bets on my team...
Internal. The Andrea story seeped through a harsh wall of censorship. It reflected hard facts that the Ramirez Government could not hide...
Redistribution is not to be confused with rehabilitation, which cares for the wounded and the warworn who need hospital treatment. Nor is it to be confused with reclassification, a harsh word in the Army, where it sometimes leads to demotion or discharge for incompetence...