Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are, I imagine, people like myself who supported the Kennedy-Johnson ticket of 1960 on the smug assumption that Mr. Johnson couldn't do too much damage as Vice President. Illumination from the harsh light of history would now cause us to take a long, hard look at a Rockefeller-Reagan offering...
Although the punishment was too harsh, the Administrative Board's procedure was the most fair and scrupulous possible under the circumstances. To some extent the Board had to be arbitrary: because the bursars' cards of resisters, picketers, and sympathizers alike were all turned over en masse, it was impossible for University officers and senior tutors to identify all the students who imprisoned the Dow representative. In addition, the students who were identified were given the chance to explain the exact nature of their involvement in the demonstration...
...arbitrary, unjust, and offensive. Punishing a handful of randomly selected scapegoats will stir, not deter, rancorous anti-University protests. It will weaken, not encourage, respect for the rules. Most important, it would simply be unreasonable, and there is no compelling reason for the University to rush headlong now into harsh action...
...City's Mayor John Lindsay seem to be getting, and turning down, more invitations than any other Republicans, although former Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater and Gadfly William F. Buckley Jr. are still much in demand. With the possible exception of Senators Wayne Morse and J. William Fulbright-both harsh critics of U.S. policy in Viet Nam-no Democrats are hot on the campus circuit...
Skelm's poverty is reflected in its flat, treeless landscape so characteristic of Lancashire. The air is heavy with dust and the northern wind is harsh. The town's only landmark is the beacon on one of the few hills at the city limits. Visitors are always taken to the beacon to see the fine farmlands to the south and west, the motorway to the east, and the decaying city of Wigan to the north. There is no exit or entrance to the motorway at Skelmersdale...