Word: spartanism
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Spry King Gustaf of Sweden, 91, and his brothers, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, 90, and Prince Carl, 88, threw caution to the winds at a birthday party for Oscar in Stockholm's Drottningholm Castle. Abandoning their rigid spartan diet, they gorged themselves on a few favorite dishes of their youth: lobster American, goose liver, partridge, champagne, ice cream...
...clothing ne'er so coupon-free This Spartan isle will shortly be, Methinks, a nudist colony...
Thinner Meat. Britons were freed of some other Spartan restrictions. Wilson eased gasoline rations to allow 810 miles of "pleasure-motoring" during the summer (the former quota was 540 miles). As soon as circumstances permitted, Wilson promised a "bonfire of controls...
...escape the political equivalent of deep-sea divers' bends. The new blood of nationalism ran fast and hot in Israel; sometimes it seemed to be gushing out on the ground. Pleading for more understanding and tolerance of Israel, one sympathetic observer warned: "This could become an ugly little Spartan state...
...only in peace between Jews and Arabs is there much hope for either. If the Israelis are forced into many years of war they may indeed become "an ugly little Spartan state." Their wiser leaders know this. Such men as Ben-Gurion see the Israel of tomorrow as an industrial, trading and organizing nation leading the whole Middle East to new levels of productivity...