Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supremo, Jose Caspar Rodriguez Francia, was Dictator of Paraguay for a quarter-century (1814-40). His policy of strict isolationism prevented Paraguay's incorporation into Argentina or Brazil...
Thrush demanded strict observance of the A.F. of L. constitution, which forbids the chartering of any union when one of the same jurisdiction is already in the Federation. But Thrush's 35,000 Progressive Miners looked pathetically unimportant beside Lewis' huge union with 600,000 duespayers...
Unlike famed but fading Pitcher Satchel Paige, Negro baseball's No. 1 attraction, Josh Gibson is no gaudy eccentric. He drives no cerise roadster, makes no startling statements about a strict diet of fried foods-and, accordingly, receives no $40,000 a year. Josh's salary is $750 a month, plus bonuses that are paid on a hit-or-miss basis. But Josh Gibson has come close to causing an international incident...
These practices have made A. P. a sort of private club, the Government maintained; they add up to a "flat boycott" against non A. P. papers; membership restrictions are so strict (majority vote of the members and payment of a stiff fee) that it takes an average six years to get an A. P. franchise. Moreover, the fee (10% of the assessments that A. P. members in the locality have paid since 1900) is so stiff that a new member in the New York City morning field (unless he could buy an A. P. franchise from a bankrupt paper) would...
...Government's fear of Communism is another stimulant to Turkish suspicion. Modern Turkey is organized on strict totalitarian lines and is the product of a revolution; 20 years of existence have not yet fully stabilized it. The westernization program of Kamâl Atatürk lifted it out of a medieval slough, but economically and financially it is still far from healthy, and wartime difficulties have stimulated latent inflation...