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...conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry caused sleepless nights to the quasi-Führers at Vichy...
...scraped the dishes clean while eating. The general treatment was quite decent and humane, but the control of the entire camp was lax and very inefficient. For instance, the delivery of the mail from the men's to the women's camp (which was only 20 kilometers distant) took about three weeks, often being lost altogether. This anxiety, together with all the other ordeals, caused many to have a nervous breakdown. There were many different types of people among this large group of men. Jews and non-Jews were together&151;unlike German camps. There were Germans, Austrians...
...fairly, such as there is in Spanish 8. But with perseverance a student will learn to talk. Courses 4 and 5, two connecting half-courses, were criticized because the sections are too big, some men never get any practice, and the poor student stays poor, Moreover Mercier is too lax in correcting pronunciation...
...interstate business. SEC proposed the idea to protect investors from a number of abuses it has unearthed in various corporate reorganizations and to counteract a general laxity of corporate law in certain States. Alternate proposal: use of taxing power to make more difficult incorporations under the statutes of these lax States...
...cutting the communication line between Madrid and the sea. Theoretically responsible for this Teruel east front is the Leftist city of Barcelona, second largest in Spain, but Barcelona has been so busy with its bloody squabbles between Anarchists, Communists, Socialists and Left Republicans that it has been disgracefully lax at the front for almost a year...