Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind, but the few finished pictures he did produce were apt to be dim, moody echoes of the Renaissance masters. In view of all this, many an art critic wondered if he could be considered a true painter at all. When Novelist Gertrude Stein once put that harsh question to him, Berard fell on his knees protesting, "Yes, oh, yes!" Last week, a Manhattan gallery staged a posthumous show of his portraits that helped to tip the decision a little in Bébé's favor...
...Body. The durable Hearstling who caused all this commotion had been tempered in a harsh and gaudy school. At 19, Jack Campbell got a $6-a-week reporter's job on the San Francisco Chronicle, and covered the Barbary Coast when there was at least one good murder story every week. After one man was kidnaped and shot, Campbell hired a pack of bloodhounds and set out to follow the bloodstains. When the dogs yelped their way to a house, Campbell burst in the door and found a woman nursing a nosebleed. But after this false start, Campbell scooped...
...Russians stood by icily as the Assembly voted 43 to 6 to pass the veto resolution. At his post in the Chambers delicatessen, Sam Schulman was well pleased with Mr. McNeil's work. As for Russia, Sam expressed a harsh and highly undiplomatic opinion. "Russia is no good," he said sadly. "Absolutely no good...
Mother of Decorum. On Good Friday, as if to reassert Christendom's spiritual claims to the city, a small procession of Christian pilgrims struggled through hail and harsh winds along the Via Dolorosa toward Calvary. In Rome, meanwhile, Pope Pius issued an encyclical appealing for Jerusalem's internationalization and demanding a guarantee of free access for Catholics to Jerusalem's holy places...
...fort still held out. From his command post Figueres opened up across the city's roofs with more guns than Costa Ricans knew they had. The staccato poc-poc of tommy guns mingled with the belch of mortars and the harsh slam of 50-calibre machine guns. The fort and surrounding houses were riddled. By the time the last rebels gave up, an estimated seven were dead, a score wounded...