Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolationists' bargain was better, he was convinced. On the debit side, the U.S. would probably have to trade with a victorious Germany on a barter basis. All exports and imports would have to go under strict Government control. Government would have to lay an even heavier hand on private industry. The U.S. would have to learn to produce as Germany did under Hitler, and figure out a way to keep individual freedom. The U.S. would have to maintain a huge armament program. (But after all, the General told himself: "Hitler ... is mortal and he'll die some...
...From many a U.S. jukebox, in strict dance time, in moody thumps, Freddie Martin's Bluebird record, Piano Concerto in B Flat, had moved in among the ten best nickel pullers...
...friends, or mingling on familiar terms with country people, fishermen and farmers, they would have thought him less formidable. And what they took for irascibility was often only a pedagogical technique. He was impatient with laziness, carelessness, or discourtesy, and rebuked them unsparingly when occasion demanded. He was strict also with innocent minor disturbances like coughing or late arrival at class. But far from losing his temper over these things, he had himself very well in hand...
...subject has been a sore one for several years, but no publicity has been given it since the spring of 1940 when the CRIMSON printed an editorial urging that a new system be adopted. It was generally felt that the swimming requirements were too strict and unfair in comparison to other winter sports in which many more men gained awards...
...home again in disillusionment" period, when either Radcliffe or local talent becomes the goal of the world-weary Harvard man. It is at this point that he discovers the naive beauty of the Pine Manor belle. She's always dumb but often rich, and though her regulations are stupidly strict, she can be persuaded to "check out to the library" on warm evenings...