Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strict Tradition. Christmas itself would be celebrated according to a strict tradition. As always, it would have its disappointments. In the backs of their minds, many men & women somehow expected to feel like the jolly characters in wintry Currier & Ives prints, and they never did. But there would be few who would not experience a warmth of heart, or a loneliness, or both, which were not a part of ordinary days...
...continuing aspect of U.S. military aid to Chiang is MAGIC, the corps of 750 officers & men of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in China. In theory operating under strict orders to remain "neutral," MAGIC has in practice been advising-at the noncombat level-the only military establishment it could reach, the Nationalist army. A fortnight ago, MAGIC's commander, Major General John P. Lucas, with whom Chiang had long been dissatisfied, was relieved by bluff, hearty Major General David G. Barr...
Britons quickly learned to know him as a pipe-smoking, stocky, imperturbable Average Man who might have served as model for Punch's famed John Bull. He and Lucy were strict Sabbatarians, would not even read Sunday papers. His radio chats, larded with folksy platitudes about "service" and "playing the game" kept him at No. 10 Downing Street...
Last week, the U.S. and Mexican Governments heeded the campesino's wails. Henceforth only infected animals would be killed. Exposed animals would not have to be sent to market. To curb the disease's spread, the campaigners would rely on strict quarantine and vaccination. Said U.S. Agriculture Under-Secretary Norris Dodd: "Maybe we've been going too fast. Mexico says the impact on her economy is too great...
...order known as the Cistercians of the Strict Observance is one of the most austere in the Roman Catholic Church. On ordinary days rising hour is 2 a.m. (it is earlier on Sundays and feast days). Seven hours are devoted to sleep, about seven to the Divine Office and Mass, one hour to meals, four hours to study and private prayers, usually five hours to manual labor. Except when sick, Trappists* eat no meat, fish, eggs; unless they are giving necessary directions for labor, monks without special assignment may not speak, except to their superior...