Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asking for help in building the "bridges of reconciliation" between eastern and western Europe. The spontaneous approval roared back by the crowds predictably ruffled official Polish feelings. At a dinner given by Ambassador Cabot, Deputy Foreign Minister Josef Winiewicz proposed a toast reminding Kennedy of "the strict political realism of our links with Socialism and with the Soviet Union...
There, Mario Montessori, natural son of the Italian woman who worked out the method, has carried on since her death in 1952 at 81. But when Head mistress Rambusch insisted on relaxing the strict discipline of the original Montessori dogma, Mario called her a heretic and withdrew the charter. "My task has been to create a society for the maintenance of the 'pure' Montessori," he explains with a sigh...
...importance of economic advisers has also grown with the proliferation of common markets, payments unions, development banks and monetary funds-most of which the economists devised, either wholly or in part. Yale's Belgium-born Robert Triffin was the architect of the European Payments Union that abolished strict currency controls; now he is pushing the controversial "Triffin Plan" that would link nations through a world central bank and a single world currency. France's Robert Marjolin, first vice president of the Common Market, is also pressing for the "Marjolin Plan" that would unite nearly...
...federal bureaucracy. Piling subsidy atop subsidy, the Government buys up much of the cotton that U.S. farmers grow, and it handles most of the cotton that is exported. The Government is supposed to properly inspect the bales, but apparently its standards of classification and control are not sufficiently strict. Exporters buy the cotton from the Government, sometimes sell low grades at high-grade prices-and Washington does not stop them...
...Symphony, which Mälzel had commissioned. Perhaps least appealing of all, he was a self-righteous moralist who could denounce his brother Johann's wife as "an infamous strumpet" though he himself, says Thayer primly, "did not always escape the common penalties of transgressing the laws of strict purity." What Thayer meant, as he later explained in correspondence, was that Beethoven had contracted syphilis, probably in the course of certain "conquests" during his early years in Vienna, and that his deafness may have resulted from...