Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most or all of what he said about Argentina's strict censorship and jails crowded with political prisoners had been said before, in dispatches which other newsmen had sneaked out. But Cortesi packaged it all up, and with a good play by the powerful Times, it created a minor journalistic sensation. In San Francisco, it jarred the State Department's don't-let's-be-beastly-to-the-Argentines policy ; in Moscow, it got a jubilant reception...
Last to arrive, the unwelcome Argentines were apparently under strict orders to lie low, do nothing to increase the unpopularity of the U.S. -Latin bloc. Argentina's Rodolfo Garcia Arias moved quietly, his shoulders heavy with dignity and dandruff...
...Synod (either taken by surprise or not paying strict attention) approved the report without a dissenting vote. Next day, finding itself clutched to the editorial bosom of the left-wing press, the Synod rubbed its eyes and sat up. Much of Canada's press spluttered with indignant denunciations. Last week a red-faced Synod spokesman explained emphatically that Canadian Presbyterians are not red-minded. The controversial passage had not appeared in the official copy, said he, but had been interpolated during the reading by an overenthusiastic chairman...
Hirohito was more successful when he decided to marry for love. Despite the opposition of the court, he chose a young noblewoman, Princess Nagako of the Satsuma clan, which was then outside the strict circle of families eligible for imperial matches. In due time she bore him five daughters and two sons, the eldest-born being Crown Prince Akihito...
...blood donations to the Red Cross, the war services committees in both Adams and Lowell House are conducting door-to-door drives. A keen rivalry is brewing to determine the greater contributor. In Eliot House a drive to enlist Navy blood donations will begin sometime this week, although strict physical requirements have been set up by the Navy doctors...