Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entails several responsibilities. No longer will you take the subway or tube over the Charles River to Park Street. As a Harvard man--in a qualified sense--you take the "cah over the Chahles to Pahk." As a pro tem and pseudo Crimson student you may move only in strict channels so far as relations with women are concerned. Those channels are Radcliffe, Pine Manor, and Wellesley. You may date a Radcliffe girl, but the chances are pretty good that she'll outrank you; also her disbursing grades will be higher than yours. You may date a Pine Manor...
...good Americans need faith, not only in God, but, while the battle is on, in our leaders as well. After the war they will be held to strict account for every detail of their stewardship-but here and now we don't even bring up Pearl Harbor...
...Resistance. The rest was silence. Now & then a report crept through. Edouard Herriot, under strict house arrest in his 72nd year, was very old, very tired. Americans interned at Vittel had a glimpse of him when his Vichy gaolers brought him to a villa in the old watering place. Rumor said that he was suffering from an incurable ailment. One day the jailers hustled him on to Nancy, not far from the German frontier. There, some time in the fall of 1943, death came to Edouard Herriot, but not to his words, not to his memory...
...prolific worker, and a military commentator of worldwide reputation, General Fuller has written 24 books, including his able 1,060-page Decisive Battles: Their Influence upon History and Civilization. In this and other writings, straying from the strict military field, he has also urged a totalitarian England, called parliamentary governments "mobocracies," praised the discipline, comradeship and culture engendered by fascist dictators. Today he writes a lusty, critical weekly article for Lord Beaverbrook who enjoys a good rumpus. In his free time he applies his considerable talents to occultism...
...budge Dev and Eire: British blessing on a forcible union of Catholic Eire and Protestant Northern Ireland. But Britain was less than ever in a mood to hand over its fighting comrades of North Ireland to uncooperative Eire. Instead, London sent Dublin a note supporting the U.S., ordered a strict curb on travel between Eire and Britain. Under study might be the withdrawal of other long-granted concessions: shipments to Eire of Canadian wheat, British coal...