17 April 2013

stricture

[strik-cher]

noun

1. a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism: The reviewer made several strictures upon the author’s style.

2. an abnormal contraction of any passage or duct of the body.

3. a restriction.

4. Archaic. the act of enclosing or binding tightly.

5. Obsolete , strictness.

Today’s aphorism

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
and no religion too

Imagine all the people
living life in peace.

– John Lennon

On this day

17 April 1961 – the U.S. government sponsor 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade the Bay of Pigs, Cuba in an effort to overthrow the socialist government of Fidel Castro. The attacks fails, resulting in the deaths or capture of all of the exiles.

17 April 1969 – assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan. Robert Kennedy was the brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

17 April 2010 – A Manhattan library reveals that first President George Washington failed to return two library books, accruing an overdue fees of $300,000. The library said they weren’t pursuing payment of the fees.