Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much for whatever advantages Palestine gave her. Policing Palestine was a drain in pounds sterling, a drain in manpower for troops. And Palestine was a drain on British prestige, for the Arabs blamed Britain for protecting Jews, and the Jews blamed Britain for shutting off immigration and applying harsh police measures against terrorists...
Self-taught and self-sufficient, he had always been somber and harsh. He had lived in Mexico City's red light district, painted its prostitutes and beggars in dark lurid colors. He found little to be joyful about in his own life or in the life about...
...Harsh winter weather kept a lot of U.S. moviegoers at home during the past few weeks. Variety reported a noticeable slump at box offices. But neither snow nor slush nor biting winds bit too deeply into the popularity...
When Roosevelt talks big about liberty and global harmony, Author Franklin ( & friends) confront him mercilessly with the harsh realities of economic security and power politics. On the other hand, Churchill, whose hardheadedness Moderator Franklin clearly favors, gets away with oratorical murder on the subject of the divinely-created British Empire...
...call the other group cowards may seem harsh if, which is not always sure, they were sincere in their desires for political neutrality. But what their desires or intentions were is of little significance when one considers the effects of their so-called neutrality. On the one hand, they elected to stay in Germany in order to play, and to play they had pretty much to be good little boys. The great shout in favor of Furtwangler was that he "didn't throw out the Jews until he had to" and that he was responsible for getting many Jewish musicians...