Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind Main Street, the white frame-houses are scrubbed spotless, and box elders border carefully trimmed lawns. The citizens of Sioux Center bear such names as Gerritsma, Ver Steeg, Van de Garde, Schouten; some 97% of the town's population is of Dutch ancestry. Communicants of the strict Reformed (Calvinist) faith, they keep a tight rein on their youngsters. Main Street has one beer parlor, no state liquor store, no dance hall...
...wife of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Daughter of Rhode Island's Nelson Aldrich, one of the richest men to serve in the U.S. Senate, she married John D.'s only son in 1901, devoted her private life to philanthropy and the strict upbringing of their six children...
Early Years. He was brought up in Owosso (pop. 8,000), where he had a perfect attendance record at school, played football and tootled the tuba in the school band. His parents were strict: they once forbade him to use his tricycle for a whole year because he had hurt himself in a fall. In his spare time, he sang in the Episcopal choir, managed a magazine route, worked in his father's print shop. One summer he spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World...
Unrepentant, he emerged to pull the noses of most of the important little men of the age, in cartoons which showed up their littleness and made them look funny besides. Sometimes, when he was deeply angry, he would strike straight out, as in his camera-strict drawing of a worker's family which had been murdered by the King's police...
That President Truman's charted route ultimately means war seems an accepted truth on the part of at least some supporters of his plan who want armament for strict preparedness purposes. This is the greatest current tragedy in light of the fact that it is not too late to redirect our policies triumphantly. What endangers this country is not the ideology of socialism but the seizure of power by disciplined groups string-pulled from Moscow...