Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Socialist act was to turn down a motion approving U. S. economic assistance to the Allies as the quickest and surest way to prevent war's spread to this country. Instead, the delegates adopted a plank of strict isolation. Other chief concern of the delegates was unemployment. Keynoted Maynard C. Krueger (rhymes with eager) of the University of Chicago: "We Socialists are not interested in trying to make the Capitalist system work. Hoover and Roosevelt have tried that and proved that it can't be done." Private business representing production for profit instead of production...
...captain presented a huge sausage to the first Norwegian fisherman who came along, asked him to pull the U-boat free. The fisherman, after consuming the sausage and praising its quality, notified the nearest naval station and the Nazis were all interned at Horten, with a fine show of strict Norwegian neutrality...
...numbers many a human pillar who has been divorced and remarried. Perennially the Church faces a question which will not be downed: What to do about such good people who get civil divorces, wish to remarry in church? The Episcopal canon on marriage, as liberalized in 1931, is still strict and specific: rectors may marry only those divorced persons who are 1) innocent parties in divorces for adultery; 2) innocent partners in marriages annulled for premarital cause. But not a few parsons, in dioceses with liberal bishops, marry divorcees anyway and get away with...
...history of the Progressive movement (Farewell to Reform, 1932), staff writer on FORTUNE, editor of Harper's monthly book pages, frequent contributor to the New Republic, busy, boyish John Chamberlain reduces the august subject of The State to simple, street-corner terms. The state originated as a "strict racket"; it has progressed by becoming a "limited racket," i.e., a democracy. Government he sees as the broker between competing pressure groups, the New Deal government as a fair attempt to even up the competitors...
...been previously explained, the whole plan of not reporting attendance in advanced courses which are taken primarily by Juniors and Seniors has been tried as an experiment in recent years. An especial appeal is made to undergraduates not to abuse the present system. Otherwise a return to the more strict policy will be necessary...