Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dude reader will be wrong. Dorothy Johnson pays her respects to the strict conventions of western fiction (by now as stylized as a Flathead bluejay dance), but the best of these ten tales of a lost frontier echo Bret Harte or Mark Twain in the West. There is the sentimentality and pawky humor by which all oldtimers of all frontiers recall the brave days. Storyteller Johnson's memories are authentic; she grew up in Whitefish, Mont. with wide ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising...
...strain on the United Kingdom's reserves have come from the weak payments position of Britain and of the other countries in the sterling area and from speculation against sterling, he said. Bernstein attributed the poor payments position of sterling area countries also to inflation, and called for strict financial policies there as well as in Britain. fied, he said by the large amount of sterling held by non-sterling banks due to war payments to Europe and South America. When sterling is under pressure these banks tend to liquidate their holdings, he explained...
...what makes this unsophisticated book more interesting than most jungle jour nals is the sophisticated corporal's many-sided marital problem. By her fifth month of pregnancy, Ilouhi is obliged, under the strict tribal law, to find her husband a second wife. Rene protests the bigamy: "To carry out my mission would I have to become . . . lord and master of a harem?" But Ilouhi finds him Crey the Bahnar huntress, a wild creature from the inner jungle. With the appearance of Crey, Riesen is surprised to discover in the de voted Ilouhi "that boundless distress which...
After this strict preparatory school regimen, the foreign students finds university life very free. Lecture attendance has traditionally been voluntary; the Communists have antagonized the East German students by making attendance at lectures and examinations obligatory
...Point No. 2: The U.S., as soon as Russia and the West had ended nuclear-weapons production under strict inspection and enforcement, would join with Russia in dismantling some of its nuclear bombs and turning over the fissionable material to an international agency according to a 53-47 ratio, i.e., of every 100 lbs. of material transferred for peaceful purposes, the U.S. would provide 53 lbs., the Russians...