Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seized the Spanish consulates in several French cities, were calling for another Spanish civil war. One sharp edge of the problem was domestic: the Spanish Maquis received voluble support from their French comrades within the F.F.I. If General Charles de Gaulle did not support them too, he could expect harsh words, perhaps harsh acts, from the Left. The other sharp edge of the problem was international: Russia, and antifascists throughout the world, were voluble in shouting that the time had come to topple Franco...
...Terrifying World." A patient, she thinks, should get out of the hospital as soon as possible, even though it means entering a "new and terrifying world." She also feels that he should get no coddling, should learn to do things for himself, even when it seems harsh to make him do them. The best kind of help, she found, is from someone similarly injured. Betsey Barton made this discovery at Manhattan's unique Institute for the Crippled and Disabled.* There she found an organization with many disabled people on its staff, using many kinds of special training methods...
...Soviet Government has often been grossly attacked in the U.S. press, which is free. But the controlled Russian press has almost never said a harsh word about the U.S. Government. It has behaved with the same correctness toward Britain's Conservative Government. The Soviet press, however, never hesitates to exercise its claws on individual citizens of the big powers. Last winter Pravda kicked Wendell Willkie resoundingly in the pants and called him an "obedient speaking trumpet" (he had mildly ventured to state that there is a Polish question). Pravda also mauled New York Times Military Commentator Hanson Baldwin, called...
...Army was trying to rationalize things for them. Officers who had also been overseas lectured them on being too harsh in their judgment of apparent civilian lassitude. They were told of the great production record U.S. civilians had made in the war. They were reminded that people are only human. But the bitterness remained in their eyes, especially in the eyes of the youngest...
Louis Waldman could barely speak English when he got his first harsh lesson in U.S. labor relations. In a chandelier factory, where he worked for $2 a week, a woman's hand was smashed in an unguarded machine. Waldman, 17 and fresh from Yancherudnia in the Ukraine, was fired when he refused to sign a paper saying the accident was her fault...