Word: strictest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resources to design the cumbersomely classic stone pile which was finally finished in 1938-when there was no longer much use for it. But the "rightful winners," according to the Museum, were Frenchmen Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who had proposed a terraced glass-and-concrete palace in the strictest "functional" tradition. This time, urged the Museum, the UNO planners should "learn from Geneva and select an international jury of honest men, sensitive to the modern spirit in architecture...
...President and Prime Minister had much to discuss. Much had happened since Teheran (December 1943). The swift stab of Allied armor into Germany gave urgency to such decisions as what to do with Germany. Presumably the surrender terms would put Germany, for a long time, under strictest military control. But after that, what? And still to be decided was how "hard" the peace should be.† The story of the charnel house of Maidenek (see FOREIGN NEWS) revived the problem of how high, and how low, responsibility should go for Nazi atrocities...
...Reich Food Administration spokesman explained his problem: ". . . loss of the agricultural district in the east is a difficulty. . . . Our supply organization is now sharply strained . . . strictest rationing and best organization are necessary for us to get through these twelve months [of 1944]. The millions of foreign workers we must feed make, so to speak, a thirteenth month...
...Marshal's Country. I remembered an Allied official who had expressed doubts as to whether certain territories of Yugoslavia could be called "liberated" in the strictest sense of the word. Well, I entered Partisan territory ten miles behind the fighting line, traveled 25 miles in an automobile, saw a Partisan train, and visited the last session of the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress. Now three barefoot urchins are arranging a bouquet of cherry blossoms by a pool under a huge walnut tree. This is liberated enough...
...cinemactress's southern plantation last week became a Trappist monastery. To Conyers, Ga., 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, came 20 monks (10 priests, 3 clerics or students, 7 lay brothers), all members of the Roman Catholic Church's strictest monastic order (Trappists do not converse with one another). For $45,000 they bought 1,464-acre Honey Creek Plantation, which formerly belonged to old-time filmstar Colleen Moore. Said Atlanta's Catholic attorney Hughes Spalding to liquor dealer Mercer Harbin, who sold the farm : "Now, Mercer, I don't want you trying to cheat them." Replied...