Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through it all, Bevin remained the Ernie of old-harsh-voiced, pontifical, given to great gusts of laughter and oratory. In the House of Commons bar at noontime he continued to drink as long as he had companions, before lunching alone on bread, cheese, beer. Last week Writer-Critic Harold Laski depicted the Bevin of 1944: "Mr. Bevin has never, since he emerged as a trade-union leader of importance, liked criticism, still less opposition. ... He is always certain that he is right. . . . Masterful in temper, obstinate in disposition, accustomed . . . to give orders which must be obeyed...
...heard some plain talk last week on reconversion. It came from War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes in a speech before the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan. His most significant point: the harsh realities are at hand; big war plants are going to close down; in the next 20 months war production will be cut back some $16,750,000,000 at least; another $1,402,000,000 will be slashed from the spare parts programs of the Army & Navy by the end of this year. Then Assistant President Byrnes warned...
...simple, sometimes only a few paragraphs of cadenced prose. Their taste is bitterer than that of her novels. An Unwritten Novel, with its anguished account of a nervous, twitching, staring woman visiting her plump, patronizing sister-in-law, whose children stop eating to watch her tremors, is a harsh story for anyone to have written, incredibly harsh for Virginia Woolf. More characteristic is the mood of The Lady in the Looking-Glass, with its picture of a house in mid summer: "The room that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling - things that...
...Unconditional surrender" was coined at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. Prime Minister Churchill pointedly gave President Roosevelt full credit for it, told the House of Commons that he "concurred." Its acceptance altered, toughened British propaganda policy toward Germany. Both Churchill and Roosevelt repeatedly tried to soften the harsh threat by assuring the people of enemy countries that unconditional surrender would not mean their destruction. But the propaganda weapon they put in Hitler's hands could not be offset by qualification...
...Colonel met the then Miss Googins at a livestock show in Fort Worth, married her in 1933, five days after he was divorced by his first wife, Elizabeth, mother of William Donner Roosevelt, 12. Elliott was later dropped from the Social Register. Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt charged "unkind, harsh and tyrannical conduct," asked for the custody of their three children: Ruth Chandler, 9; Elliott Jr. ("Tony"), 7; David Boynton, 2. Colonel Roosevelt was rumored to be currently interested in Winston Churchill's daughter, Mary, and a WAC captain abroad...