Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the strict enforcement officials said, is the difficulty of establishing parietal rules in a dormitory system not designed for co-education...
...resuming the many friendly ties which, for many generations, the American people have had with the Chinese people?" To the last question, Dulles' answer: yes. "Communism is repugnant to the Chinese people. They are above all individualists. We can confidently assume that international Communism's rule of strict conformity is, in China as elsewhere, a passing and not a perpetual phase. We owe it to ourselves, our allies and the Chinese people to do all that we can to contribute to that passing. If we believed that this passing would be promoted by trade and cultural relations...
Even some Nuri supporters have lately complained that the time had come to relax the strict controls that Nuri imposed at the beginning of the Suez crisis. Shrewdly, Nuri had combined his vacation plans with an old maneuver-stepping down to produce an illusion of "change" when politicians began to grumble...
...helpers. One was a socially topflight admirer, dashing Civil War Major General E. Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...
Room for the Divine. The revived interest in Mondrian has revealed that before he became a dry, ascetic perfectionist, he had an intense, emotional youth remarkably similar to the early years of another great Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. Like Van Gogh, Mondrian had a strict Calvinist father, early sought to establish spiritual contact with Holland's rough peasants, underwent a period of religious fervor that nearly swept him into the ministry. Mondrian, too, was a painter of the Dutch farm countryside, who gradually increased the intensity of his colors until they glowed with slashes of crimson, cobalt blues...