Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rushes. A student has to have a C average to be eligible, but according to some students, there are other requirements, like football ability or a car. Because of this, the competition for certain outstanding prospects has been vicious in the past. Now, however, the fraternities have formed a strict honor code which must be observed in dealing with freshmen. Some of the examples: A first semester freshman cannot double date with a frat man or pledge, he can not go on a picnic with frat men, or go to the movies with a frat...
...Kill Me Now." Held in strict detention-first in Teheran's plush Officers' Club, then in the Sultanabad army barracks some ten miles from the city-Mossy was allowed to see only his guards, a military prosecutor, his wife, daughter and nurse. But the ex-Premier knew that if his performance was good enough, its fame would spread to the streets and make it harder than ever for the Shah and new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi to get him off the political stage. Resolutely he resisted the prosecutor, who came to interrogate him in preparation for a trial...
...moved gently across the silk and his deep-set brown eyes lit up. Then he stepped confidently to the rostrum and spoke words that soon wiped the big smile off the face of Miguel Alemán. "Government-protected monopolies must end," said the new President. "I will demand strict honesty from all. I will be inflexible with public officials who are not honest...
...victory was too much to ask from a man of Mulloy's years, was it also too big an order for young Rosewall and Hoad? The semifinals seemed to produce a firm answer. In top physical shape, thanks to Coach Harry Hopman's strict meat-and-sleep training rules, the Australians nonetheless sometimes seemed mentally over-wound, as if their play had become work. Facing powerful Lew Hoad, whose service is one of the fastest in amateur tennis, Vic Seixas showed the same flair for court tactics he demonstrated this year at Wimbledon. It was a net-rushing...
...killed in a fall from his horse while Aurore was a child. Her mother was a dancer-"or, rather," said Sand, "something lower than a dancer, in one of the most disreputable of the Paris theaters." Aurore was raised at the Dupin estate at Nohant by a strict grandmother and educated in Paris by English nuns. At 18, strait-laced but bursting with romantic ideas, she married Casimir Dudevant, an amiable but entirely unimaginative fellow who spent his days hunting, his evenings snoring...