Word: ironclad
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First, Thayer got rid of Partridge - no easy job. Soon after, he succeeded in dismissing the son of a major general for returning late from vacation. Thus began the impartial, ironclad discipline that was to shape West Point's growth...
...nonetheless officially pledged themselves. They lost. Six men who "unofficially" made their Willkie sympathies known (including two-term Governor Robert O. Blood) were elected. But two of the top three vote-getting delegates were antiseptically committed to no one. And two others of the winning eleven had given their ironclad official pledge to Tom Dewey. The Dewey men beat out the Willkieite state G.O.P. chairman...
...snares that brought down the behemoth Mr. Riebel and now faced Mr. Kaiser were still the same: 1) an ironclad, waterproof contract with C.LO.'s United Automobile Workers which straitjackets management, banning it from firing, shifting or disciplining workers without union permission, 2) bad control of materials, which sometimes forced workers to loaf...
...numerical superiority in an area where our forces are so small we have practically no margin of expendability. That is our major weakness in New Guinea. Our forces are so limited that we can't risk any but missions which seem to have an ironclad guarantee of high returns and few losses...
...Navy does not bend easily. But it is now up against the women. The Navy wants to enlist 70,000 women this year. Hereafter, said the Navy last week, relaxing one of its ironclad rules, WAVES, Coast Guard SPARS and Marine Reserves may marry anyone they choose. Hitherto, they had been forbidden to marry within their own branch of the service (i.e., a WAVE could marry a Coast Guardsman or a marine, but not a Navy...