Word: strictest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walled off from the world by the desert and the strictest military secrecy, Muroc Dry Lake...
Since all the services have up to now maintained the strictest color line in regard to assignments, this switch in policy creates an extremely delicate situation. If the re-assignment of colored troops is bungled, countless unpleasant incidents will occur inside the National Military Establishment. Such failures would give ammunition to the many opponents of racial equality, in and out of the services...
Hole in the Wall. Walled off from the world by the desert and the strictest military secrecy, Muroc Air Force Base is a strange sort of community. In all it does, it is dedicated to military aircraft performance, with special emphasis on speed. In the realm of speed it also has its king. He is Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 26, a modest, blue-eyed test pilot with an infectious grin and an easy West Virginia drawl. What makes Chuck Yeager outstanding, even among the crack pilots at Muroc, is the fact that his name is certain to go down prominently...
Bright & White. Of all the provincial delegation gathered at Jaipur, the Madrasis were the strictest adherents to Congress rules. Their leading crusader is a 45-year-old bacheloi named Avinashilingam Chettiar, Minister of Education for Madras province. A great admirer of the late Mahatma Gandhi, Chettiar invariably wears a jibba (a loose long-sleeved shirt) and a Gandhi-type loincloth. As a member of the provincial cabinet, he voted with the majority to forbid expansion of the textile industry, on the ground that it would conflict with the ministry's "wear more khadi" program. Recently in the Madras legislature...
...Yugoslavia the Marshall Plan and the Tito rule were being bracketed with a broad grin. A visiting diplomat asked a Yugoslav to tell him-in strictest confidence-how the nation felt about Marshal Tito. "One. hundred percent in favor," came the answer. The visitor's eyebrows shot up. "Oh, yes," explained the Yugoslav. "Just add it up: 95% for Marshall, five for Tito...