Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garden full of policemen and his house in an uproar. "A miserable little robbery and everyone loses his head," he exclaimed. "It's indecent and ridiculous. France shows us hospitality, and this is how we repay her. We bother the police and we worry the Minister of the Interior...
This was an exaggeration. Though Opus Dei members do not advertise their membership, they may not conceal it, and the new Cabinet contains only one full-fledged member (Commerce Minister Alberto Ul-lastres) and three "cooperators"-Mariano Navarro Rubio (Finance), Cirilo Canovas (Agriculture), and Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega (Interior). But this was enough to focus a spotlight on the organization long regarded among suspicious Spanish Jesuits as "the White Masons...
...Customs, which immaturely barred Ulysses, finds nothing legally obscene in Lolita. But the mature French Ministry of the Interior, apparently pressured by the British Home Secretary, has brought suit to prevent the continued French publication of Lolita on the ground that it is falling into the hands of immature British and American tourists. Nabokov is happily busy with a less controversial work of art, his 2,000-page translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin...
...Interior was Kadar's chief policeman during the suppression of the revolt...
Though some officials still think the domestic industry should go on under protection, one Interior Department tungsten expert disagreed. Said he: "We're jerking out of the ground tungsten that we shouldn't have to pull out for the next 50 years. McKenna is right. Since we've got enough tungsten for an emergency, let's leave it in the ground...