Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet, strict, forceful soldier, and he has advanced in World War II from colonel to lieutenant general, from brigade commander to commander of a whole army. His definition of a good general is not flashy: "He must have the ability to know and instruct his men and must let them see him and know him as much as possible. . . . In modern war with its terrifying destructiveness and terrible strain on the morale and guts of the nation and the individual, the value of personal leadership in the general is greater than ever before." He also says: "I haven...
Eggman Creighton believes in scientific farming, free enterprise and White Leg horns. The latter, he says, are the most efficient egg-producing machines yet dis covered. He seeks to improve his best layers by keeping strict records - how many eggs laid, their weight, the physical characteristics of chicks hatched from them, etc. He is president of the U.S. Record of Performance Breeders Association, also chairman of the National Poul try Defense Committee. (Sideline: he is Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives.) For his pedigreed chicks Egg man Creighton gets 40? to $1.75 each; the common-or-garden variety brings...
...Constitutional requirements for President (35, native-born) are liberal. The unwritten requirements, time-honored in U.S. politics, are strict...
...second half of the show verges on large-scale revue. Soldiers dream of beautiful white-clad women; a handsome ballet to Chopin has a lyrical start, a lunatic finish; a big South American number combines hot dancing with jokes ("Army life is terribly strict-lights out at 9 o'clock, women out at 10"). For the finale, veterans of World War I clamber on to the stage while the cast slides into the past with Tipperary, Pack Up Your Troubles, Mad'moiselle from Armentieres. Then the cast roars into the future with...
...teacher, Nadi insists on strict observance of the punctilio of fencing, even to a show of courtesy toward the judges-for whom Nadi usually has only the most perfunctory respect. In saluting an opponent, a Nadi fencer must hold his mask in his left hand with four fingers on top, look his adversary straight in the eye, bring the blade of his weapon up before his right eye, then sweep it down and to the right. The blade, says Nadi, must whistle through the air, must under no circumstances commit the "frightful discord" of striking the floor...