Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo-bound Taurus Express rocked and clattered through the harsh, moonlit mountains of southern Turkey. In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major. When control officers at the Levantine frontier saw the special British laissez-passer, they moved on quickly to the next compartment. Chained to Prince Stirbey's wrist as he slept that night was a small, red dispatch case containing, so it was said, Rumania's terms for quitting...
Guns. Voronov won and still wins his victories with the number, not quality, of his cannon. His order to the designers was: make them simple to handle, sturdy enough to survive the harsh terrain and weather, effective enough to stop the tanks. The order was filled well. The Germans proved it by shipping captured Russian guns for use in Africa...
When the Finns sent old Juho Kusti Paasikivi to Stockholm to ask the price of peace, a little old lady of 71, skilled in muting the harsh truths of power politics, gave him the Russian terms...
...Milwaukee, the would-be Dewey delegation held a smoky, six-hour conference, spoke many a harsh word about their hero's 13th-hour repudiation. Seventeen of them-not for love of Dewey but because they cannot bear Willkie-decided to stick it out despite the Governor's "disapproval...
...Prime Minister Churchill to the House of Commons, he and Foreign Secretary Eden had "labored with the Polish Government in London" to establish a "friendly working agreement" between the Russians and the Poles. It had been labor lost. Winston Churchill made his Government's position plain: in the harsh world of power politics, Britain would cross Russia no further (see above). The position of the U.S. was completely fogbound...