Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Sachsenhausen Pastor Niemoller has been placed on a regime of half rations, double heavy labor, solitary confinement. Rock-breaking, roadbuilding, ditch-digging, harsh treatment are fast wearing him out. He has not been beaten, but has told his wife on the rare visits she is permitted that he has seen others beaten unconscious. "When I write the address, 'Concentration Camp, Sachsenhausen,' " said one daughter, "then I am always very proud...
...days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial. It did not stop until Nov. 5. There, according to convention, it should have stopped for good, since a majority of the voters voted for a golden voice instead. But the election, far from striking the Voice dumb, gave it new inspiration...
...long time the air was thick with wounded feelings, with horror at such disregard of punctilious protocol. But that week Adolf Hitler, who had been sounding a harsh A for many days, was silent. It was believed that he understood such language. Up to last week the simple, tactless little statement had not yet been improved...
Meanwhile Trustbuster Thurman Arnold joined the fray, charged the producers with "harsh, onerous and unfair trade practices," indicted Hollywood's Big Eight (Loew's, Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO Radio, 20th-century Fox, Columbia, Universal, United Artists) under the antitrust laws. His announced objective was to divorce production and distribution, make the big producers ' give up their 2,400 theatres. Last spring he called the industry a dictatorship, insisted it must be reorganized. While independent exhibitors cheered, the Big Eight sent their lawyers to Washington...
...learned at Munich's famed Akademie and took to making little childlike scrawls. Artist Klee was trying to capture on canvas the fleeting impressions of his own subconscious mind. To him and a few devoted admirers the childish, loony world of the subconscious was more interesting than the harsh, war-bound world outside...