Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Pennsylvania's outgoing Republican Governor John Fine last year said that the state urgently needed some $300 million in new taxes, no one was more indignant than George Leader, Democratic candidate for governor. Efficient (Democratic) administration and strict (Democratic) economies, cried Leader, would solve Pennsylvania's fiscal problems. He won election by campaigning against new "broad-base" taxes, including income taxes...
...record, or appraise, or even interpret. Instead, he analyzed what he saw, and thus helped raise art scholarship to a new plane of exactitude. Berenson confirmed, by close study, that every artist's picturemaking is as personal as his handwriting. Even if the painter works in a strict tradition, his personal touch will appear in small things: the way he paints ear lobes, or hair, or crosshatches a shadow. By familiarizing himself with Italian Renaissance art down to such details, Berenson became the reigning expert on the subject. His overriding idea-that art must be experienced to be appreciated...
Their rule is strict. They rise at midnight for Matins and Lauds, and rise again at 6 for Prime and Mass, and the day's routine. Meals are meager (no meat ever allowed). The sisters fast from Sept. 14, the Feast of the Holy Cross, until Easter Saturday. They maintain strict silence at all times, except for the evening's hour of recreation. (Every now and then, the chaplain at Sing Sing comes over from nearby Ossining and asks how "the lifers" are doing...
...stands at more than $7 billion. It is rising so fast that the Agriculture Department last week was getting ready to ask Congress to boost the borrowing authority of the Commodity Credit Corp. from $10 billion to $12 billion. This mountain of food has caused the U.S. to impose strict import quotas on agricultural commodities, a policy which is not only condemned by foreign nations, but is opposed by the U.S. itself when other nations practice it. Furthermore, the U.S. angers its friends almost every time it tries to get rid of its surpluses abroad at competitive prices. Example...
When he was twelve, he even made a speech before IBM's 100% Club of star salesmen. It was a "very good, short speech," his father happily recalls. For Tom Jr., his father set strict standards and never relaxed them. When Tom, an ardent boy scout, failed to make his Eagle badge, his father refused to send him on a gala seven-week trip to Europe, which he was financing for other Short Hills scouts...