Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week one faux pas was made and another was narrowly averted. The blun der: BBC, despite instructions for strict secrecy, announced that on July 1 Sir Stafford had had a three-hour talk with Joseph Stalin. The narrow escape: Be cause the mails are impossibly slow, Sir Stafford corresponds by cable with his wife in London. Recently he told her he had bought an Airedale named Joe. Last week, Lady Cripps told friends, she wrote a cable to her husband, ended it with "Greetings to Joe," saw her blunder, struck out the last word, substituted "Airedale...
...hrers-to-be, selected at the age of 12 from the entire population, spend six years at the Adolf Hitler School where they lead a strict, secluded life, wear brown uniforms and receive a thorough fundamental education with emphasis on languages, history and the development of leadership qualities. There are no examinations, character being the basis of all judgment. Following graduation, incipient Führers are released for seven years of "practical life study," during which they serve in the labor and military services and learn a trade or profession, continuing at the same time their practical political work within...
...spiritual pastors of a congregation; like a Protestant pastor or a Catholic priest, a rabbi conducts services, preaches, supervises the religious teaching of the children, visits the members of his congregation, marries them and buries them, is their leader in social and charitable work. For Jews who observe strict dietary laws, many a rabbi is required to supervise slaughterhouses, butcher shops, restaurants and dairies...
...Getulio Vargas went aboard a warship in Rio de Janeiro harbor, and, after wining well, got up to address the assembled officers. It was the day after President Roosevelt's Charlottesville speech and President Getulio first paid his respects to hemisphere solidarity. "We are united by ties of strict solidarity with all American countries around the ideas, aspirations and common interest in our defense," said...
Pius XII has kept strict silence about Italy's war activities. As during the Spanish War, some Italian prelates have not. Last week Most Rev. Evasio Colli, Bishop of Parma and head of the Central Bureau of Catholic Action, asked its members to pray God "so that He may bless our dear country and protect the sons of Italy who are fighting bravely. . . . Every one must perform with perfect discipline the duty assigned...