Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strict ceiling on military spending could disastrously weaken the nation's defenses. But a ceiling that is merely uncomfortable can have beneficial results: it can force military leaders to cut down on overlap, make choices between concepts and weapons. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, backed up by the President, has tried to hold the 1960 defense budget to a distinctly uncomfortable $41.6 billion, i.e., this year's level plus a 2% inflation factor. And one result of the painful ceiling is that the Pentagon is taking hard-eyed looks at duplication and obsolescence among the U.S.'s twoscore...
...Insist on strict adherence to the letter of the law, now largely ignored, that ownership of companies in many sectors of the economy be at least 51% Mexican...
...open violence on Cyprus. A shadowy organization of Greek resistance-fighters ("patriots" or "terrorists," depending which side you're on) took shape in the mountains, gave itself the name of EOKA, and began ambushing British soldiers and policemen. The colonial administration responded with a stern program of security measures: strict curfews, mass arrests, fines levied on whole villages, and even, it is said, the use of torture to secure information from "suspects...
...college such as Harvard where parietal hours are strict and privacy scarce, the Clubs might seem ideal locales for entertaining dates. But stern self-imposed rules, plus Dean Watson's knotty chaperoning regulations, have kept the appearances of women in the Clubs to a rarity. Only on special occasions, such as Yale or Princeton football games or one crew race in the spring, may girls be admitted. Abuse of this rule brings heavy penalties--usually club expulsion; this and cheating at cards are considered the cardinal sins of the Club world. (Except at the Porcellian, where card-playing is prohibited...
...official punching season, lasting about six weeks from October until early December with a three-week moratorium for hour exams, is governed by strict rules set up by the Club presidents in consultation with Dean Watson. Each club is limited to a certain number of "major functions"--large formal dinners or Sunday outings that feature lunch and a traditional touch football game at a graduate member's country home. But the number of Hasty Pudding Club lunches or of small dinners seating no more than six is unlimited, and as the competition between Clubs becomes tenser, the punching chairman frantically...