Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against Field Marshal Smuts's Government. Last week in Pretoria, at the end of the Union's longest treason trial, the judge asked sneer-faced Sydney if he wished to say anything. Up whipped Sydney's arm in a Nazi salute. Out whipped the words, in harsh Afrikaans: "Long live Adolf Hitler, long live National Socialist South Africa. I expected to die if I came back and I'm not afraid to do so, To hell with your mercy...
Under the Ferns. Near Homalin the party left their rafts and began the hike which was to take them to the Chindwin River and over the harsh border mountains to India. The homespun, bowlegged general slogged along with his eye obstinately on his watch, counting out 105 steps to the minute. Cases of malaria cropped out. Faces grew thin. Pus-filled jungle sores broke out on legs and feet. Men stopped joking. They were in the jungle: "Festooned with giant green ferns, decorated with palms such as we had thought grew only in hotel lobbies, and laced and hung with...
...learned that the graves were empty. But the incidents had been real enough. In the camp close by, British Command troops had long been training under real fire, and unwary men had indeed been killed. Now U.S. Army Rangers were in training there, in a course as dour and harsh as the snow that capped the crags and sluiced icy water into the ankle-deep mud of the glens...
...payment of two years' taxes in one year would be a severe hardship, if not an impossibility. . . . Complete doubling up would undoubtedly be too harsh for some. . . ." (Point Two of the Ruml plan: taxpayers cannot afford to pay their 1943 taxes while they are still in hock to the Government, as under the present system, for taxes on 1942's income...
...were grimed with the dust. They were in full battle kit. Their weapons glinted in the bright sun. These were Montgomery's shock troops. They had done the job before at El Alamein where the long trek had started. They were eager to do it again for the harsh, implacable man whom they adored...