Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly the score feast proved that even the Ivy League, with its strict rules against importing professional players, can show a sparkling brand of football. In spite of traditional lassitude, little football here worship in the stands, and too many three-hour labs for the players, the raw material under these Paris fashion pants can be polished into a highly efficient machine...
...Balmoral last week the birthday party was quieter than Margaret would have liked. It stopped at midnight Saturday to avoid criticism by strict Scottish Sabbatarians, who had been ruffled recently when Princess Elizabeth took in the races, theater and a nightclub in Paris on a Sunday. The King toasted his daughter in champagne. A helicopter brought thousands of birthday greetings. Britain wondered (and doubted) whether Margaret would settle down. Said an East End docker last week: "I bet she's a handful...
Easygoing James Bruce soon had headaches galore. Argentina had stopped payments on U.S. investments. Strict regulations worked against U.S. capital and business in Argentina. Last June the U.S. contributed a crusher: EGA hinted that unless Argentina stopped gouging its customers, EGA would buy no Argentine wheat or beef-in other words, Argentina would get no dollars through European financing...
Only about three out of every 100 cases are the result of battle wounds. But VA regulations are not too strict. Any veteran whose teeth went bad while in service is entitled to free care. If cavities or other dental troubles show up within a year after discharge (provided the veteran has served at least six months), the trouble is presumed to be "service-connected." The ex-serviceman can get free dental service for as long as he needs it on any tooth treated in his first year out of service...
...hold the cost of living down, -the government has subsidized milk, meat and wheat. Milk, for which the producers get 8? a quart, is sold to the public for 9?. Rents have been under strict control but are shortly due for some increase. Wages have also been held even; the government has set aside several wage increases proposed by labor-management boards...