Word: harshly
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...even if the issue were clearly understood, people might not act much differently when it comes to the crunch. A grape is one thing; it has a kind of bacchanalian image, succulent and superfluous. It is a luxury. But plebian iceberg lettuce that makes a harsh noise when you munch it is a humble staple. People are not so willing to give...
...plight of the Asians is worsened by the fact that they are not really welcome anywhere. Since 1968, Britain has maintained a harsh quota system to control the entry of East African Asians, even though they are British subjects; at present the number is limited to 3,500 heads of household annually, plus their dependents. Some are legally entitled to go to India or Pakistan, but few are anxious to do so. "Britain may have a million unemployed," remarked an Asian mechanic in Kampala, "but in India they are dying of hunger...
...only half aboriginal. His father was a nameless white man. Jimmie's mixed strain is both judgment and destiny. Mentally but not emotionally weaned from the chants and lore of a now decadent tribal heritage, he tries to make his way as a houseboy and laborer in the harsh, pinched world of white Protestants-the missionaries and farmers who are claiming the open land. From them Jimmie learns the snobbery of materialism, according to which "possession [is] a holy state...
Thieu is well aware that such proposals could lead to his eventual sacrifice. Evidently girding himself for political battles to come, he acquired emergency powers last June, and last week decreed a set of harsh new restrictions on the freedom of the South Vietnamese press. Saigon's 27 dailies must henceforth deposit $50,000 as security against libel suits or government fines. The effect is that about half of them-and most of the opposition newspapers-will be forced to close...
...laws and patterns that can be descried, like the laws of science, and used to improve the human lot. To the Finland Station ends after the fall of the czar in 1917 with the exiled Lenin's return to Russia (via the Finland Station in Petrograd) and his harsh speech calling upon the soldiers and workers of the revolution to reject the reforms of the revolutionary Provisional Government and seize all power for the people...