Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Domestic Affairs. Neither votes as regularly as he should. Both oppose Prohibition. Jack long ago wanted diplomatic relations with Vichy France severed, but Jacques thinks the ties should have been maintained. Catholic Jacques thinks divorce is too easy, while Protestant Jack feels that the law is too strict...
Additional news did not come from the U.S. but from England. Flight, a trade magazine unbound by strict U.S. censorship, had given British readers some details of the secret weapon the U.S. is readying for battle...
Since Pearl Harbor, the Emperor has all but abandoned sessions with the Privy Council (Inner Cabinet); now he confers constantly with top-rank military leaders, attends all meetings at the Imperial Military Staff Headquarters. The Japanese press has recorded his strict orders that he be awakened at any hour of the night to hear important political or military news. At daily religious ceremonies, he wears the traditional silken robes. But at all other times, he wears his bemedaled uniform, symbolizing Imperial support of the war (TIME...
...went on to express her annoyance at the overly strict segregation of sexes here. It is her own personal belief that the average male student profits by a coed atmosphere. Miss Askenazy wishes to do post-graduate work here, and judging from her personal appearance she would be of considerable help creating a profitable atmosphere...
...Hobby's army had found out. Living quarters were either huts heated by a single stove, or some drafty English country house. Only a few hundred WACs working in London were lucky enough to live in greater comfort. The pay was low. The hours were long. Discipline was strict. Sometimes there were bombings...