Word: rigorousity
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Domestically, Quadros promised "to impose the most rigorous government morality." He appeared at the presidential office building at 7:30 a.m. the day after inauguration only to find long lines of offices standing empty. With cold anger he ordered a new ten-hour workday, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m...
The New York Times was editorially ecstatic: "An inspiring, eloquent and straightforward address." Said the San Francisco Chronicle: "Good for him for having the courage to believe that the American people are strong enough, wise enough and resolute enough to accept a rigorous demand for harder, more intense national and...
Nikita Khrushchev's desire to meet and play summitry with Jack Kennedy is no secret. Ever since Kennedy's election, "Smiling Mike" Menshikov, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., has been urging the advantages of a Khrushchev-Kennedy meeting. Kennedy, however, had set himself against playing Nikita'...
A Drop of Ink. From his rigorous criticism of such peace mechanisms as exist, one might expect Jaspers to lose hope for the future. Quite the contrary. Fatalism and despair, he argues, rise from certainties that are not really certain. If one atom bomb is dropped, there is no certainty...
A rigorous anti-Communist with progressive policies, Koirala began pushing through land and tax reforms, soon had gathered the reins of government to himself. King Mahendra, who as monarch is regarded by Nepal's pious Hindus as a reincarnation of the god Vishnu, was left little beyond his religious...