Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King & His Duty. Ibn Saud is a strict adherent of the fanatically strict Wahabi sect of Islam. He neither practices nor permits smoking, drinking, or dancing. His justice is swift and sure: thieves have their hands chopped off; murderers, their heads...
...sense of humor about his total baldness. Once, when he commanded the 30th Division, he ordered all his officers to get strict ¾-inch haircuts."Look," he said, snatching off his cap, "I wouldn't order you to do anything I wouldn't do myself." As a young officer, Simpson served the usual tours of duty- Mexican border, Texas, the Philippines. He fought in World War I, was awarded the D.S.M., the Sil ver Star, the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de guerre. In 1925 he was graduated with distinction from the Command and General Staff...
Eleanor Roosevelt, having gained a few pounds over the holidays and noting that her Term IV inaugural dresses were a larger size (36-38) than her 1932 costumes (34-36), went on a not-too-strict diet: no more mayonnaise, butter, potatoes, hollandaise sauce, meringue glac...
...pasta faggioli ... a perfect, well-balanced" noodles dish, cooked with "nice, brown kidney beans," escarole and onions. The starch-wary Mayor reported that pasta faggioli was so full of "the vitamins, the starches, and everything you need" that "when we have pasta . . . I have to go on a very strict diet for the next week...
...Sonia, "until my eyes closed, I imagined the day on which my parents would die and Miss Pride would come to take me to live at the Hotel...." Eventually Sonia's fantasy is outdone by reality. Miss Pride condescendingly takes her to Boston, to live in her own strict Pinckney Street house, as a kind of amanuensis...