Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the eleven Communists on trial in Manhattan for conspiracy had hankered after martyrdom or a mistrial. Their lawyers had repeatedly raked Federal Judge Harold R. Medina with harsh and measured spite. Sometimes, when their tactics seemed to be getting to him, the judge would leave the courtroom, his face suffused with anger, to compose himself. Last week, at long last, he decided it was time to "reduce the disorder" in his court...
...critic who saw it in Brussels urged that its exhibition be restricted to such professionals as doctors and magistrates. Published stills stimulated organized squeamishness; 140 London nurses petitioned the board of film censors to keep The Snake Pit off British screens because it showed "mental hospital nurses as harsh, unemotional and often cruel...
...CRIMSON interview, the 29-year-old scientist had harsh words for the "hysterical and erroneous stories" in the Boston press that front-paged his name for several days before he was given a public hearing. He said he appreciated the fact that the case was turned over to a "responsible Congress...
Associative Living. The Phalanx association was started in 1843 by ten hardy families, followers of the French visionary Charles Fourier, who believed that the ills and harsh competitions of the world could be ended by "associative living." It began as a farming venture on 673 acres of rich land. As its population increased (top membership: 112 men, women & children), a gristmill and a smithy were added and the association bought a part interest in two steamboats to get their excess goods and produce to New York. They put the first packaged "name brand" cereals on the market and their stamped...
...over the country, workers and clerks spilled into the streets and squares, wearing the Torinos' badge encircled in black crepe. Pope Pius XII sent a message of condolence to the players' families. Mourned President Luigi Einaudi: "Horrifying disaster . . . Harsh blow for the entire nation...