Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...
...Germans are still fighting an inconclusive campaign with hard-bitten Chetniks in the Serbian mountains. The Italians last week replaced a general in their Army of Occupation who had failed to conquer the Yugoslav guerrillas. A strict curfew suddenly clamped on Belgrade indicated that the Serbian patriots were operating even in the capital...
...Purcell; he knew the stock exchange end of the commission's work thoroughly; he was a true SEC career man ( TIME, June 9). But "Judge" Healy's candidate for chairman was ex-businessman Sumner T. Pike, his sole Republican colleague. A chairman picked on a strict seniority basis would have been Healy himself. But the Judge would always be more effective as an outsider-storming, needling, threatening to resign. Evidently Mr. Roosevelt hoped he would stay on in that effective role, to storm, threaten and relent many times again
Another possibility touched on in the report depends less on government action than on the colleges themselves (quite properly, President Conant dealt with education in general, not just the Yard and its environs.) The idea was that a strict physical examination be given to every Freshman, to determine whether he would be fit for actual fighting. Charles Atlases would be required to engage in sports throughout their two-and-a-half or four years, while those who didn't pass would develop skills for behind-the-line work, which presumably wouldn't include climbing fences, enduring long exposure, or chasing...
...Yutang is a novelist of strict limitations. His popular-philosopher serenity betrays him into platform sleekness. A too-crafty craftsman, he complicates his action with a set of tediously artificial misunderstandings...