Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into the past, and has introduced a strict, well-disciplined machinery to replace the former hit-or-run system of fire-fighting. The modern chief has a fingertip knowledge of the latest fire prevention methods, is a combination of business man, doctor, psychologist, race-track driver, and engineer. Every one of his men looks forward to officers stripes...
...order and discipline, I should like to point out that there was no likelihood whatever of any clash, and that when America First counter-pickets were sent out to prevent the Student Union from having a monopoly on the newspaper photographs, they were limited in number and given equally strict orders not to do any talking or anything else that might start trouble...
...dispute between the United Mine Workers of America (CIO) and steel companies which own the mines-revolving around UMW demands for a union shop-appeared to have hogged down in a week-end stalemate. All sides maintained a strict silence...
...Some zealous doctors used to advocate training tiny babies to evacuate at regular hours. Mothers would set their infants on "toidy seats," fight with them to move their bowels. Such strict training, said Dr. Aldrich, makes bowel control a reflex act, rather than a conscious process. When the stimulus of the toidy is transferred to a regular seat, the training is lost and the whole fight must begin all over again. A child can go dirty and play in his puddles, said some of the doctors, until he understands what a toilet...
Stockholm is a city of rocky inlets, cliffs, bays, lakes and forests as well as and buildings, its planners are thinking that the natural setting is not obliterated by cheap, sprawling flats, anticipating such a development with strict laws and government-financed projects the relieve housing needs in other directions...