Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, this assessment of Big Four intentions was too harsh. The Foreign Ministers had not served up a ready-made peace, but a set of treaty sketches with 26 questions still left wide open, including many major issues such as internationalization of the Danube. When Jimmy Byrnes snapped: "Those who fought the war should make the peace," he merely summed up the self-evident half-truth that not all nations are created equal and that a peace based on the fiction of equality would not work...
...only with Liberals and Catholics, but with his own working-class followers. To businessmen he had issued a ukase ordering an overall 10% price cut for commodities and services ranging from haircuts to sewer pipes. To striking workers in the grimy industrial Liege district he had sounded a harsh warning: "Watch out; you are in the process of endangering your future and the future of your children...
...vendors sold more hot dogs; everybody seemed to be making more money but the ballplayers. Westbrook Pegler, no union lover, but once a baseball writer himself, was sympathetic to the players: "The owners will have some of themselves to blame. Not all, but enough of them, have been harsh and arrogant, mean in money matters and completely ruthless in imposing on the youth of great players such as Dizzy Dean who used himself up long before his time...
...spring a housewife's fancy turns to thoughts of cleaning. Britain in the wake of war was as restless and ruthless as any of them. In her musty old attic many an outworn, heart-warming trinket of tradition was being dusted off, examined and discarded in the harsh light of accuracy and efficiency...
Before he got onto the actual paper, however, Cunningham had a few words with Walker. Brushing aside Walker's protest that he didn't mean to be so harsh on Bill and that he had been misquoted, Cunningham intoned, "That misquoting business is an old device people use when they wish they hadn't said something...