Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration crushed a determined drive in the Senate to write into President Roosevelt's Aid Bill a strict prohibition against the use of United States armed forces in foreign wars...
...invasion of England was repeatedly postponed and hopes of a quick peace faded, the soldiers got quieter and quieter. Homesick talk vastly increased, photographs of families were more in evidence. R. A. F. raids on Antwerp and over Germany sandpapered the soldiers' nerves. Against strict orders, they got drunk oftener. By September, soldiers were forbidden to carry sidearms. More & more of them listened to the London broadcasts (penalty, two years in a concentration camp). Such symptoms might never focus in revolt; but it was safe to say that German morale could never regain its high pitch of summer...
About the time Aviation went to its subscribers, the secret figures became public property all the same. They were printed in the British The Aeroplane-which operates under strict wartime censorship. The Aeroplane's information, passed by the British Air Ministry, gave chapter & verse on performance, bomb capacity and armament for 36 up-to-date airplanes. All are being sold to Britain, most are used by U. S. fighting services...
...captain of a ship is like a priest. He is not a mere man, but a symbol of authority. The world of the ship is more strict than any the landlubber knows, yet it is a microcosm of the wider world and its hierarchical values. Upon this parallel, Marcus Goodrich has built the story of Delilah, a U. S. destroyer, a world of 71 men. By any standards, it is a top-notch yarn. But what frames the story, gives it symbolic sense, restrains the turbulent narrative from getting too diffuse, clarifies each character, even makes amends for the faulty...
...aloofness from the European tragedy... But now with... the flood of propaganda and falsehood sure to afflict us as it did prior to our entry into the World War, our aroused emotions and sympathies may sweep us off our moorings... We must keep our heads cool and preserve a strict and real neutrality. We are not likely to be able to do that by following a policy which many of us favor of professing neutrality, yet doing everything "short of war" we can do to help France and Britain...