Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo newspaper Kokumin last week had some harsh words to say about the "fickle, indiscreet Japanese" who give away their plans and allow other nations to prepare against them. Germany, said Kokumin, "remains a sphinx and acts unexpectedly with lightning speed." By coincidence, only three days earlier the Japan Times and Advertiser, English-language organ of the Foreign Office, had published an "abstract exploration for a possible world peace" which was either a pipe dream of the future or the frankest, completest and grimmest Fascist plan to date for the New World Order...
...Harvard Liberal Union and Harvard Defense League will sponsor a lecture on "America and the Harsh Age" by Professor Max Lerner of Williams College in Emerson Hall next Wednesday at 4 o'clock...
...need until the raucous voice of America-the voice of Walt Whitman and The Rail Splitter, of George Washington and the gentle Lee, the voice of the blue-jeaned, 'baccy-chewing field hand, the voice of the East Side and the steel mill-the hoarse, harsh voice of America whistles down the winds of the world and is heard in the far corners of the earth. This...
...Farewell to Arms: bedding, drinking, eating, quareling, comedy, conversation. Prudence has a good head and heart but is soaked to the scalp in the reflexes of her class; Clive is sore, experienced, articulate, discourteous. It makes for a lively debate and, with the friend's arrival, for some harsh and vivid reminiscences of World Wars...
There were many fine and noble words said about our functions as moral social animals, and there were denunciations of those who would abdicate these functions. But in terms of the harsh test of "where do we go from here?", the meeting offered very few and very small potatoes to partisans of peace and progressivism. Apparently we are heading for war, an American imperialism cloaked in Luceful euphemisms, and a career of international political and economic frustration. This happy state will persist until the distant day when everyone becomes tired of it all. Which is not a very pretty...