Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guardia heard last week that the National Assembly, due to convene on Jan. 2, might oust him from the Presidency, which he seized by "Constitutional" flimflam in 1941. He decided to do something about it. By summary decree he dissolved the Assembly and suspended the Constitution. He also imposed strict censorship and posted mounted police around the hostile National Youth Congress...
...returned soldiers had little to say. Strict secrecy was still their rule. But two facts about them and their comrades were known: all the French Canadians who had gone to France before D-day had volunteered; besides the nine who returned, only six others were known to be alive, out of nearly 70 who had dropped into France...
...wiliest moves was his beguilement of the working press. Argentina's newspapers (La Prensa, La Natión, La Razón), traditionally free, frank and influential, smarted under the strict censorship begun by the Castillo regime. Instead of lifting the restrictions, which might have been dangerous for the regime, Perón forced the publishers to raise their employes' wages...
...celebration of the Mass, derived from the words of Christ at the Last Supper and given its present strict form in the 7th Century, has inspired some of the world's finest music. But many of the greatest musical Masses, for one reason or another, have been deemed by the Church unfit for liturgical use. The unapproved list includes Bach's famous B Minor Mass, the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven, Masses by Haydn, Mozart and many other great composers...
...problem. Both London's Polish Government in Exile and the Moscow-sponsored National Committee of Liberation in Lublin made formal application for relief on behalf of Poland. At UNRRA's last meeting in Montreal a fortnight ago, delegates from the London Poles had sat unhappily silent, under strict instructions to say nothing and do nothing to rock the boat. Now a major issue was out in the open. Theoretically it was up to UNRRA's Big Three (the U.S., Britain and Russia) for settlement. Actually the final decision was up to Russia. For before UNRRA can operate...