Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This strict timetable is not likely to be slowed except by three possible developments: 1) drafting of more Negroes, who are not yet in the Army in proportion to the size of the Negro population; 2) an official change of heart about the size of the Army required by the U.S. (see below); 3) an earlier victory than any official is yet willing to count...
...Treasury, Morgenthau got off to a bad start: he ordered guards to shine their shoes and stand at attention to "show respect for official superiors," clamped a strict censorship on Treasury underlings, relations with the press. His relations with Treasury higher-ups have been equally unfortunate: there are enough former Under Secretaries of the Treasury to start a lodge...
Even the Houses, which they would not normally enter until their Sophomore year, have altered. Strict evening dim-outs and practice air raid alarms will harry their nocturnal activities. If they follow a recently reported trend they will drink more beer than Scotch and have fewer, but more potent parties...
WASHINGTON--The 78th Congress, bent on strict government economy, receives from President Roosevelt tomorrow an unprecented budget expected to propose more than $100,000,000,000 in federal spending in the fiscal year beginning July...
Some reasons for this startling sobriety: hard training makes hangovers all but unendurable; strict penalties for drunkenness (30 days in the guardhouse at Randolph Field); liquor curfew hours in some towns adjacent to camps; sale of 3.2 beer in camp canteens (in World War I camps were bone dry and bootlegging was rife...