Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National League. Only team badly jarred is the New York Americans. Five of its most promising youngsters (from the strict Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan) were refused passports. But the Americans have become accustomed to bad breaks ever since the league took the club away from its financially embarrassed owner, onetime Beer Baron...
Probably Jazz Information's standards were too high for its own material good. It refusal to compromise with what it called "quasi-jazz," its strict adherence to the New Orleans-Louis Armstrong line, may have scared off many who needed to be educated gradually to an appreciation of the vital spark of the great jazz improvisers. It appealed, therefore, almost exclusively to confirmed addicts, and for them it performed a great service with its thoughtful criticisms and biographies of well-known jazzmen. To the ex-jitterbug who has tired of jive, however, its almost esoteric articles and dogmatic policy seemed...
...using American maritime, naval, and military resources to insure delivery, but refraining from unrestricted belligerency 1446 56% 1197 42.2% 49 1.8% 3. Withdrawing all assistance from England unless she agrees to open negotiations immediately for peace with Germany 197 7.6% 2396 88.77% 99 3.7% 4. A return to the strict neutrality implied in the original Neutrality Act 429 16% 2227 82.7% 36 1.3% (Note: Since on some ballots two questions were answered in the affirmative or negative the figures above will not aggregate exactly the total number of ballots cast...
...minimum of fustian, of rabble-rousing, only one moment of phony melodrama-when Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had displayed British-made toy lead soldiers, had asked the little Redcoats directly: "What are you doing here? What are you doing here?" (The toy soldiers kept a strict military silence...
...required unteaching as well as teaching. Like Leahy, he was lucky enough to inherit from last year's freshman ranks one flashy newcomer: Halfback Ralph Hill, who lopes like a gazelle and can stop on a dime. With Hill and a little shuffling of old hands, Blaik, a strict disciplinarian and master strategist, came up with a winning combination. So far, Army has blasted The Citadel, Virginia Military Institute, Yale and Columbia. Practically the same Army team won only one game last year-a 20-to-19 victory over little Williams...