Word: harshness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Potsdam plan to coordinate Allied policy was generally conceded. The U.S. had sponsored the Potsdam formula; now it had neither a substitute proposal nor even a coherent plan for bearing its share of responsibility after military government ends next spring. From the first, the British had considered Potsdam too harsh. Now they, too, lacked plans for the next phase. Only the Russians had what they wanted: 1) German machinery and 2) the beginnings of German respect...
...Johnson bill was not supposed to be concerned with international control of atomic power. But its provision for iron secrecy, its original harsh penalties were patently part of an optimistic plan to keep foreign nations . (everyone knew that meant Russia) from making atom bombs. Scientist after scientist turned up to swear that there was no real secret to be kept, to point out that the May-Johnson bill would only throttle scientific research and start a world arms race. Amid all the confusion new bills were .written-last week a Ball bill, a McMahon bill, a Kilgore-Magnuson bill...
...terms sent to London were harsh enough to revive the old Uncle Shylock...
...youthful Scriptwriter Isherwood-a parlor pink who lives with his adoring mother and brother-Director Bergmann is awe-inspiring. "His head . . . was . . . the head of a Roman emperor, with dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power...
...Protector. The harsh fact was that Harry Bennett had outlived his usefulness to the empire. The things which he had spent his life protecting it against were now dead issues. Fresh out of the U.S. Navy, he was hired by Old Henry in 1917 to guard the Ford plants against saboteurs. Then he took over the job of guarding the Ford family from kidnappers. He was unable to protect Mr. Ford from swallowing whole the Protocols of Zion,* but kept him from making any more such mistakes. Often, when Mr. Ford blurted something to reporters which might...