Word: harshness
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...Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, said in an article in the New York Times: "Yigal Allon asked Ben-Gurion what was to be done with the civilian population. Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture of `drive them out.' `Driving out' is a term with a harsh ring. Psychologically, this was one of the most difficult actions we undertook...
...commander during the war, talks about the "great suffering" that was "inflicted upon the men taking part in the eviction action. The eviction went beyond the concepts they were used to. Prolonged propaganda activities were required after the action...to explain why we were obliged to undertake such a harsh and cruel action." Mr. Rabin finds it suitable to talk about the "great suffering" of the oppressor, the soldiers who expelled the Palestinians from their homes. Thus he emphasizes the mental "suffering" of the oppressor and neglects the harm inflicted on the oppressed and dispossessed. George Orwell would have been...
...help as though from deep in a cave. Dana Bradley, 20, lay in the darkness of the basement under a pile of cement girders, bleeding and her body dangerously cooling in a foot of water. But when a team of four fire fighters found her, they faced one harsh decision after another. That southwest corner of the building was highly unstable; there were girders smashed everywhere, with hundreds of tons of the remaining building above them. Bradley was lodged in a space so small that the doctors could scarcely reach her. "Two of us tried to get an IV into...
YOUR CRITIQUE OF HOWARD WAS OVERLY harsh. True, bureaucrats often score poorly in exercising power, but I'd far rather argue with a regulator who is enforcing broader and fewer rules than one with overly detailed regulations. The latter fears to stray from "going by the book'' lest he be taken to task for doing so. The former is more predisposed to listen to common sense interpretations of rules...
They say they didn't know anything about the AdBoard, anything about the proper procedure andtheir rights. They say they believe their senioradvisor did not argue on their behalf butrecommended the harsh sentence. "She was supposedto be our advocate, but I got the feeling from thestart she was not happy with what we had done,"Sam says. They point to a number of breaks fromprocedure. They say they were asked to sign theStudent-Faculty Judiciary from after their casehad gone before the Board, instead of before aswritten in the rules. They were discouraged fromappearing before the board, and they were...