Word: ultrastrict
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...Jahnke household emerged. Said Richard's high school ROTC instructor, Major Robert Vegvary: "Something monstrous and horrible must have happened at home." Indeed, to hear local residents tell it, something had. Though a devoted father, the elder Jahnke was described by those who knew him as an ultrastrict disciplinarian with an explosive temper that often boiled over into physical violence. He doled out severe beatings to his children for the most minor infractions; his Puerto Rican-born wife Maria stood by helplessly during her husband's fist-wielding tirades and sometimes suffered violence herself. Said a friend...
...busloads of carabinieri and plainclothes police in the crowd. In his 1979 visit to New York City, he was protected by thousands of policemen. In Japan last year police carried special steel racquets to bat away thrown objects-a quaint reminder of the success of the country's ultrastrict gun laws...
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