Word: harshness
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...mother started smacking her on the bottom for falling down." Olga's upbringing was almost a case study of how some parents tend to reenact with their own offspring what they suffered as children. Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, whom Stalin married in 1919, had been a harsh disciplinarian. When Svetlana damaged a tablecloth with scissors, her mother hit her repeatedly on the hands. Nadezhda committed suicide when Svetlana was six, leaving her daughter's discipline to Stalin...
...famine, drought and disease that flicker across television screens in the West, there is another cause of Ethiopia's disaster: civil war. Many of the refugees are fleeing not only starvation but the policies of the Communist government of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam as it pursues a harsh strategy aimed at subduing two long-festering insurgencies centered in the country's northern provinces. In the process, the Soviet-backed government stands accused of violating promises that it made to Western aid donors, particularly the U.S., that it would distribute food aid to all starving Ethiopians...
...nominated by a major party to run for U.S. Vice President. Privately, too, he was doing well; the couple had a net worth of about $4 million, stemming largely from his New York real estate business. But in the glare of the Ferraro campaign, his financial dealings came under harsh scrutiny. Last week Zaccaro was arrested and ushered into Manhattan Criminal Court, where he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. An indictment accused Zaccaro of scheming to defraud during a deal in which he and a partner tried to buy five Queens apartment buildings. In a plea-bargaining arrangement, Zaccaro...
...inevitable end of a protracted financial adventure." That was how State Controller Yitzhak Tunik, the government ombudsman, described Israel's bank- stock crash in a harsh report released last week. Tunik's 107-page document concerned the financial turmoil of October 1983, when investors sold off shares of Israel's major banks, forcing the government to shut down the Tel Aviv stock exchange for two weeks. By the time trading resumed, bank stocks had lost a third of their dollar value, and the government had pledged to buy the shares at precrash prices to keep investors from taking a beating...
...confessed ringleader, Grzegorz Piotrowski, a former captain. Chmielewski supported previous testimony by his co-defendant, Leszek Pekala, that Piotrowski had summoned them to discuss taking "actions to frighten Father Popieluszko." Chmielewski said that after he raised questions about whether the priest, who had a weak heart, could survive such harsh treatment, Piotrowski consulted with his superior, Adam Pietruszka, a former colonel and the fourth man in the dock, about what to do if Popieluszko died. Later, Piotrowski explained that it had taken some time for the colonel to go "to the top" for approval. Chmielewski told the court that...