Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Various provisions of Federal law authorize the relaxing, for members of the armed forces, of the usually strict income-tax law requirements when necessary on account of war conditions...
...rules of military courtesy apply--- rank takes precedence. But because military courtesy includes deference to women, and because a senior's wish is an implied command, if a senior male officer indicates he prefers courtesy to women above the strict military usage, the junior female should act accordingly without any hesitation or embarrassing counter-deference...
...strict truth about carnivorous plants (The Carnivorous Plants; Chronica Botanica Co., Waltham, Mass; $6) is the business of McGill University's Emeritus Professor of Botany Francis Ernest Lloyd. After twelve years' work, field trips in South Africa, Australasia and North America, he has published the first comprehensive treatise on the subject since Charles Darwin's Insectivorous Plants...
Into the Sanctum. Soon to be unveiled by circumstance, New Jersey Zinc has grown big on strict attention to business and a devout policy of the less said the better. For decades its stockholder reports have been dull, stereotyped affairs with a peek at quarterly earnings; its reams of trade publicity have never given a hint of production, sales or industry position; its prim officers never discuss anything not already in print. The company's practical downtown Manhattan offices are pervaded by a churchlike decorum-everyone looks solemn, all men politely remove their hats when a girl gets into...
Zone of Quiet. In Cincinnati, the city council got a citizen's plea for strict enforcement of the anti-profanity ordinance, referred the matter to City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill, who investigated, discovered that as far as the ordinance was concerned swearing was permissible everywhere in the city except city hall...