Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalist-and, I suppose, a poorer-paid one." There is no doubt that Pearson has had a healthy effect on Washington. When George C. Marshall was chief of staff, a general, worried over Army leaks to Pearson, went to the chief and urged that Pearson be bottled up by strict censorship. No, said Marshall: "Pearson is one of my best inspectors general...
...mother consulted another mind-quack about her eleven-year-old "problem child." The quack recommended sending the child to a boarding school where she would get strict discipline. The child, who needed love more than punishment, became a mental case, perhaps incurable...
...foresight of the New Deal administration which has brought out ally China to the brink of disaster. The situation in China is equal in importance to the situation in Western Europe. (2) We favor immediate, adequate economic and military assistance to the legally constituted Chinese government conditioned on strict supervision by American personnel...
...Senate Appropriations Committee. After a hardworking month of travel and talk with Chinese on all levels, he came back with a program based on these points: "Immediate and extensive" direct military aid, combat advisory aid, financial aid for military operations, financial aid to stabilize the currency, and strict U.S. supervision of the distribution of U.S. money and supplies. Clark's conclusions: "Piecemeal aid will no longer save failing China from Communism. It is now an all-out program or none; a fish-or-cut-bait proposition...
...misinterpretation of the early returns was a small part of a big problem that the A.P., brought up on strict factual reporting, still has to solve: how can it interpret complex news without losing its prized objectivity? Ex-A.P. man James B. ("Scotty") Reston, a topnotch interpretive reporter for the New York Times, and a guest speaker, let off a blast of steam on the subject: "I think [our] future depends on our developing adequate and intelligent means of explaining what is going on in the world. The news is getting more complicated every year...