Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hathorn's testimony-and that of other witnesses-had made a different impression at the White House. The President stepped forward at his weekly press conference, with Harry Vaughan in the background drawn up to a militiaman's position of attention, and angrily denounced the investigation as unfair...
Some American comment was indeed impolite and some of it was unfair; a great deal more was sound and factual, and it could have given British readers a close view of their plight, which they appeared never to have gotten so clearly from their own press or their government. Britons who, when they got the U.S. loan, complained that U.S. prices were too high (and would cut down the amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop...
...Vice President plan to marry Mrs. Hadley? Said Alben Barkley: "Frankly, that is an unfair question...
...have a simple origin in the socialist doctrines of the Labor Government-which is untrue. They say (the European critics in particular) that the British people are making less effort to get out of their troubles than the other peoples of Western Europe-which is not only untrue, but unfair and grossly insulting...
Cripps called it a "serious development," but said it was unfair to compare it with the convertibility crisis in the summer of 1947. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson termed it "not a great crisis." On the contrary, British Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskell referred to "this moment of supreme crisis," and Australian Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley said it was a "pretty desperate situation...