Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Korea Presbyterians have closed their schools rather than permit pupils to take part in Shrine Shinto. But elsewhere in the Japanese Empire both Catholics and Protestants, with the sanction of their home mission boards, have paid obeisance at the shrines-thereby, according to many strict believers, taking the first step in apostasy. Early Christians chose martyrdom rather than do the same thing; make a token obeisance to the deified emperor of Rome...
Morally, the Belgians were resigned and bitter. They obeyed but did not fraternize with German soldiers. The Nazi soldiers, under strict military orders, committed no outrages; handbills invited Belgians to report misconduct by Germans to the police. As crushing to Belgians as German domination and approaching famine was their complete isolation. Since the day of invasion they had been without postal, telephone or wireless communication. Like the Poles and Czechs, they had dropped out of the world...
...Ulysses. Mann's own model, down to the very bumpiness and cantankerousness of the style, is the dramatic monologue as developed by Browning. Many of his gripes, grouchings and mph-mph mannerisms are hardly superior to those of a young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings of light within the depths of an iceberg, is recorded more of the nature, substance, detail of that bitterly remote, contemptuous, inhumanly self-pleased, almost divine prescience...
...Copenhagen, a theatre critic was challenged to a duel for making nasty cracks about an actor's lady friend. Because Denmark's Nazi conquerors have put a strict ban on firearms for Danes, the critic chose bows & arrows, ended the encounter at his second shot by pinking his antagonist...
...uncertain ty about depreciation and a profit ceiling is delaying the Defense program. Those provisions should therefore be passed immediately, so that Congress can take its time discussing the excess-profits tax. The tax will not be collected until 1941 in any case. But this opposition did not follow strict party lines. Some Republicans, felt that the proposed plan was too mild, played with the idea of confounding the New Deal by helping up the rates in the Senate. Objection 3 was less political, more general. It came from those businessmen who did not object to paying more taxes...