Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bruine apostrophized the Nazis: "Do not expect us to drive out of public life that which is most holy. Spiritual freedom, freedom of church, school and opinion, lies in our very blood." About a third of The Netherlands' 8,700,000 population are Catholics, an other third strict Calvinists, the rest most ly Calvinists of broader denominations...
Mussolini Cunctator. New York Times Military Expert Hanson Baldwin said last week that when the British attack on Sidi Barrani began Dec. 9, the troops had strict orders to withdraw if that town had not fallen in three days. By last week this tentative operation and the Eritrean push (see col. 3) had grown into a campaign of conquest covering a quarter of a continent. To the always confident British this was not surprising. But the only reasonable explanation for the Italians' hasty retreat on all fronts was either that the Italians had lost their military minds or that...
...were just trying to be funny, and personally I think Leila Ernst is almost sure of making a big hit in Hollywood," Hobbs declared when pressed by the impostor for an apology, adding that he "wanted the whole mess kept in strict confidence between you and the Lampoon...
Stiff guarantees were given by the Red Cross. Its relief shipments are confined to medical supplies in the strict sense, dried or canned milk, children's clothing, vitamin concentrates. Because the British fear Nazi shenanigans around distributing points, distribution must be by the Red Cross itself. To Spain, where Franco's relief is now administered by social agencies, some of whose angels of mercy have Falange (fascist) symbols embroidered on their aprons (see cut p. 19), the Red Cross will send six U. S. experts to supervise the job and each Spanish agency distributing Red Cross food will...
Every Japanese has been limited to one cotton towel a year. Foreign news films have disappeared from the theatres. There is strict rationing of gauze, absorbent cotton, condensed and powdered milk. Picture post cards or magazine pictures of Imperial and military buildings, factories, other landmarks, have been prohibited. Geisha girls cannot have permanent waves, fancy coiffeurs, heavy makeup, manicures, high heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard...