Word: harshness
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DIED. LI SHUXIAN, 72, the last wife of China's last Emperor, Pu Yi, who abdicated from the Dragon Throne at age 6; of lung cancer; in Beijing. Li was a nurse at the hospital where Pu Yi received treatment while he was a prisoner of Mao's harsh "re-education" program. Of their marriage in 1962, Pu Yi wrote, "I and my bride...started our own little home, and this ordinary home was, to me, something extraordinary...
...Harsh? Yes. Descriptive? I'd have thought so. Accurate? Yes, I think, though obviously in spirit rather than in letter. Criticism welcomed by those involved with the hockey program? Not in the slightest...
...There are times I regret having written something needlessly harsh--not often, but it's happened," Larson says...
According to Gingerich, Bok believed the Confidential Guide was irresponsible and needlessly harsh...
According to Gingerich, Bok then called the Confi Guide to complain about its harsh treatment of the junior Faculty...