Word: harshness
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After lurching towards war amidst an alarming absence of Congressional debate, America conducted the war with an alarming absence of independent oversight. We recognize the need to protect military secrecy, but the Pentagon's wartime press restrictions were unduly harsh...
...years, state officials have been frustrated in their desire to try Ng -- and possibly send him to the gas chamber on conviction. Reason: he fled to Canada in 1985, where he was apprehended but has managed to avoid extradition. His last line of defense is based on the harsh punishment he might face in California for his alleged crimes...
...which are etched onto the canvas side by side in the plane of purple, maroon and red hint at forms, not of anything recognizable but an area distinguished from the rest. This creates an intriguing tension between the equality of all the areas of the painting engendered by the harsh texture of the paint application, and the vague semblance of forms attributable to the proximity of similar colors...
...woman student standing in front of the Lamont poetry board clicks her tongue disapprovingly. Shaking her head, she walks away, commenting, "harsh, harsh, harsh...
...Harsh on Dersh...