Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-dressed men in Europe have been bebowlered Britons. To them and their wives last week came a rude shock. In a surprise announcement the Government let it be known that there would henceforth be strict rationing of clothes...
...runs to 656 pages, contains some 300,000 words, each of which was put there with evident care. It attends to its business with the strict energy a good boxer would use in cutting down a bigger man. Its business: "To follow these books through their implications . . . to assess them in relations to one another and to the drift of our literature since, and, so far as possible, to evaluate them in accordance with the enduring requirements for great art." One of its five subjects inevitably emerges as the greatest writer the U.S. has yet produced. Matthiessen does not pick...
...from East Africa, Lieut. General Alan Gordan Cunningham offered the Duke of Aosta peace terms. The Duke was in such a hopeless military position that he must have eyed the terms wistfully, even though accepting them would have meant giving up his much-loved gaudy uniforms; but he had strict orders not to give in-having lost Ethiopia, he might as well detain as many British as possible as long as possible...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox today called for repeal of the neutrality act and strict adherence to a freedom of the seas policy under which United States merchant ships would discharge cargoes of war materials directly in British and other combat ports...
Regarding Captain James Roosevelt being called to active duty: My impression was that physical requirements were strict. Surely an officer with a peptic ulcer so severe it required surgery (gastroenterostomy, I believe) at Mayo's could not pass a physical...