Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were wolves and rivers were yellow and men were red and where there were no laws save those of honor." When he first visited the Mandans on a steamboat, 2,000 miles up the Missouri, the chiefs and braves thronged his lodge. Awaiting their turn to be painted in strict order of rank, they sometimes spent the whole morning, from sunrise to noon, arranging their war dress and war paint...
...Army control will not be barbaric but it will be strict...
...things like farm-fresh milk and home-baked cake. He spent hours discussing a doll house with his two-year-old daughter Kathleen-she had learned to talk while he was away. When he went to Washington, D.C. last week, it was on Navy business. He parried political questions. Strict observance of Naval regulations forbade his admitting any interest in the current political campaign...
General Vandegrift (of the Marines), to Major General Watson and Vice Admiral Brown, White House aides. A U.S. Air Forces band blared the Marseillaise and the Star Spangled Banner (an honor re served for heads of states, members of reigning royal families, and diplomats of ambassadorial rank, according to strict protocol). General de Gaulle's body clicked into ramrod attention, two stars gleaming just above the cuff-line of his saluting...
There were signs that Chiang had bent a shrewd ear to the warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what...