Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even Nelson's closest friends conceded that he had often been too easygoing, too loth to issue harsh commands when even a second's delay was fatal. The metal that poured into refrigerators and race-track grandstands six months ago, before WPB got around to calling a halt, was now irretrievably gone. And Nelson sat right where the blame, deserved and undeserved, would all fall...
...United Nations' plan-that freedom was not to be given but earned. And he had injected a little hard Tennessee muscle into the milk-and-honey promises of men like Henry Wallace. The postwar world was not all a matter of social-worker theory; it would also involve harsh duties, hard work, and economic sense...
...tanks rolled through the grain. Their treads crushed the food of Russia into the Russian earth. Or, where the Russian scorchers were quick and thorough-and they were usually both-fire curled through the grain. The print of the tanks was harsh and clear in the stubble, and the smell of the burning was bitter in the nostrils of the retreating armies. Many Russians fell in the fields, and the hot, black ash which should soon have been bread pressed into their mouths, their wounds, their souls...
...tough, un even, undisciplined, sometimes remarkable, often annoying book-chiefly about Aviatrix Beryl Markham's experiences in the hot blue skies and green hills of Africa. Author Markham reveals herself as a self-made extravert, a museum sample of 20th-century primitivism at its simplest. Her harsh, keen story is a sort of Diana myth brought up to date...
...guys. Risk their lives every day. And me? I'm supposed to be a naval officer, and they won't let me go to sea!" He wore spectacles, and after a pause he added: "Bum eyes. They threw me out of the American Navy." His voice was harsh and bitter...