Word: harshly
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...that Coleman is stupid. There is some indication that he does recognize an oppressed working class, but in the end he discards his analysis. He says, and one believes him for a minute, he knows the harsh effect the loss of a steady income has on the physiognomy. In his record of employment at the Boston's Union Oyster House, Coleman describes young workers whose lives he says will be dulled by manual labor...
...precipitately arrested George Fernandes, 43, a Socialist from Goa who is president of the All India Railwaymen's Federation, and other union leaders while they were in the midst of negotiations. One of the unionists died in jail of a heart attack. Mishra claimed authority for his harsh action under India's Maintenance of Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention. Opposition forces in Parliament, including the pro-Moscow Communists who usually support Indira Gandhi, decried the antistrike measures. Nonetheless, when they offered a no-confidence motion, Mrs. Gandhi's huge Congress Party majority defeated the measure...
McGovern had harsh words for his 1972 presidential opponent, saying that "I have felt that this man is not qualified to be in public life for 25 years...
...Vorster, 58, called the elections 18 months ahead of schedule to seek a mandate to pursue the racial policy that Afrikaners call kragdadigheid (ironfistedness), which has been coming under increasing fire from verligte (enlightened) South Africans. After the ballots were counted, the sentiment was clear: five more years of harsh segregation...
...promise of life is happiness. But the place is somehow too brazen in its confidence that happiness can be bought and that the past can be brought back, too lacking in age and refinement, in the proportion and discretion that Henry James might approve. Its whiteness is somehow too harsh in a way that makes the mind spring ineluctably to the raw beginnings of the money. The enchantment of the place is too contrived, its greens too smooth, its hedges cut too sharply...