Word: lax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regulation that forbids sale of hard liquor on military reservations, an all-but-forgotten rule. Prevailing practice in most officers' clubs and messes* is for stewards to purchase liquor in the name of officer-members, earmark bottles for an officer's personal use. Some clubs had grown lax in recent years, allowed unrestricted bar sales...
...Little Discipline. Quite aside from the problem of too much money, absenteeism goes back to another root cause-namely, lax discipline and too little contact between employer and employe in the factory. During recent years the employer has felt more & more uneasy over appealing to his employes directly for fear that he may be haled into court. It is also extremely difficult to fire a man for absenteeism, or to discipline him. In one recent case, when an employer announced that either men must work on New Year's Day to fulfill pre-arranged schedules or else take four...
...Secrets Bill, which would make all existing censorship seem downright lax, would make it a criminal offense to "communicate, divulge or publish to any person, in whole or in part, copies or the contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of any file, instrument, letter, memorandum, book, pamphlet, paper, document, manuscript, map, picture, plan, record or other writing" declared secret or confidential by any department of the Government. It was a gag bill, with a touch of the garrote...
California's Attorney General Earl Warren last week said he favored martial law. Under martial law, Nisei as well as alien Japanese could be removed from defense areas. Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles did not want martial law. The Federal Government, he said, has been lax in dealing with the alien problem. He suggested that Western States move enemy aliens and Nisei to inland farms. A committee of West Coast Congressmen thought that some useful aliens could be licensed, allowed to stay...
...This country was evangelized in 1500 by the Franciscan Fathers. It has been allowed to drift for nearly 300 years and is not yet dead. The few priests are lax in religious observance, and some of them live in open concubinage...