Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeing no chance for advancement, Vetterli left the FBI in 1938. Sight unseen, Salt Lake City's Mayor Ab Jenkins appointed him police chief in 1940. A strict disciplinarian and stickler for rules, Vetterli is unpopular with his policemen, who, like many Western police forces, are fairly casual about discipline...
...strict Catholic upbringing in Dublin and London before he joined the R.A.F. at 17. There was nothing spectacular about him except his flying, and he wanted very little except to be fit and right for that. When he got leave he would got to London and his mother would ask Paddy's girl over from next-door-but-one, and if his kid brother got leave from the Bomber Command at the same time they would have a real party. He scarcely ever took a drink and did not smoke much...
...Symphony. Written for a mammoth orchestra, Shostakovich's Seventh, though it is no blatant battle piece, is a musical interpretation of Russia at war. In the strict sense, it is less a symphony than a symphonic suite. Like a great wounded snake, dragging its slow length, it uncoils for 80 minutes from the orchestra. There is little development of its bold, bald, foursquare themes. There is no effort to reduce the symphony's loose, sometimes skeletal structures to the epic compression and economy of the classic symphony...
...people of Alaska were mad as hornets at strict Army censorship. Pending further enlightenment, however, it was well for hotheads not to get too hot. Perhaps the U.S. forces knew what the Japs were doing in the Aleutians, and did not want the Japs to know that they knew...
...waited since May 1, when the Angarstroi was sunk, to bring into the open its charge against Japan, with whom it has a year-old Neutrality Pact. If things were going peacefully, Russia would be unlikely to engage in public recrimination. Significant, too, was the fact that through the strict Soviet censorship last week came this sentence in a dispatch from Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Soviet Union has done everything possible under the circumstances to fulfill its obligations under the Pact . . . [but Russia] has never failed to make clear that it believed the Japanese attack...