Word: strictly
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...paper also won unusual tribute from a murderer. The day after his arrest in 1935 for killing two women, Dr. Buck Ruxton scribbled a note that he gave to a friend with strict orders to pass it to News of the World only after his death. Ruxton went to the gallows seven months later, protesting his innocence to the last. The next Sunday the paper was able to settle readers' bets as to his guilt by publishing the note-a full confession. Scotland Yard has also had reason to respect the paper's passion for finicky detail...
...funeral pyre. Enlightened British rule put a legal end to the practice of suttee (widow suicide), but the widow's lot has remained a poor one. Under Hindu laws, widows are not permitted to wear jewelry, bright clothing, makeup. They cannot attend wedding or birthday celebrations. Under strict laws of inheritance dating back 3,000 years, a Hindu's property is strictly entailed, passing from father to son over the generations and bypassing the women entirely. If a Hindu widow's son or grandson proves ungenerous, she has no recourse but to beg on the streets...
...principle of strict nonsectarianism could be used with greater effectiveness in seeking support from Jews. By making Brandeis a showcase of democracy, Sachar could appeal to the tendency of Jews to want to illustrate that when they are in the majority, they will practice the same principles of religious freedom by which they benefit in society--an obligation of justification...
What has happened in cotton clearly illustrates the ineffectiveness of high, rigid supports even when they are coupled with strict acreage controls. Because the U.S. was supporting (guaranteeing to buy) cotton at 90% of parity, this put a price floor under the world market. Undersold in foreign markets by cheaper cotton grown abroad, undersold at home by cheaper synthetics, U.S. cotton piled up in Government warehouses. To continue getting supports at 90%, cotton farmers last year voted to reduce their acreage by 12% and to market no more cotton than they could grow on the reduced acreage. But then they...
Later at Downing Street, packed from end to end by a curious and curiously quiet crowd, the official talks began under strict wraps "to encourage Russian frankness." That night at No. 10, Prime Minister Eden gave a banquet, at which Britain's great appeared in "lounge suits" in deference to their guests' limited wardrobe. B. & K. came in voluminous gabardine topcoats over grey suits. But the hit of the evening was Sir Winston Churchill, pink and beaming at the old familiar door, waving a cigar and giving a V sign. Bulganin gave a jovial speech in which...