Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before him is an exacting one, hedged about by ancient laws and customs. The strict confinement* and almost continual presence of numerous church officials and advisers cost Athenagoras' predecessor his reason. A few months after the election of 51-year-old Maximos V in 1946, a priest came upon him beating the walls of his quarters and crying: "This is not the post for a young man!" For almost three years the church has buzzed with rumors that the mad patriarch would soon be deposed, but only this month -with Maximos shelved in a sinecure-did the twelve metropolitans...
...mother was kind in a very strict way and every inch a lady. In the Oppenheimer household, it was possible to think something rude, harsh or improper, but never possible to say it. "My life as a child," Robert recalls, "did not prepare me in any way for the fact that there are cruel and bitter things." He remembers himself unfondly as "an unctuous, repulsively good little boy." The trouble, he thinks, was that his home offered him "no normal, healthy way to be a bastard...
...Yankee management had timed things cagily. A week before, while everybody was watching the American League pennant playoff, they had fired popular Bucky Harris. Their complaint: Bucky hadn't been strict enough with playboys. Then, before the press could get around to objecting, the Yankees hired Casey, whom sportwriters all like...
Edith Kermit Carow, born during the Civil War, was brought up in a brownstone house in New York's then-fashionable Union Square. Her upbringing was strict. The only suitable entertainments , were symphony concerts, the theater (if it was Shakespeare), and an occasional children's party, at one of which she met a neighbor, twelve-year-old Theodore Roosevelt. Sixteen years later, they were married in London. Roosevelt was then a widower of three years, his first wife having died soon after the birth of their only child, Alice...
Last week the Voice, finally on its own, was concentrating on a new job very much like its wartime duty: trying to encourage anti-Communist resistance forces and combat Soviet propaganda. Getting started again had taken time. Because of strict loyalty checks, the Voice had spent six months clearing its new employees with the FBI. Because it cannot buy service from the Associated Press or the United Press, the Voice sometimes gets scooped by foreign newspapers as well as by the Soviet radio...