Word: strictly
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...Arts and Sciences in 1953. Kennedy fleetingly considered Bundy as a possibility for Secretary of State, but finally installed him in a cluttered basement office in the White House that came to be known as "the little State Department." Under Kennedy, who cared little for rigid protocol or strict administrative lines of organization, Bundy often had more influence on foreign policy decisions than Dean Rusk himself. He nonetheless disclaimed any interest in power for power's sake. "I'm no man's competitor," Bundy said recently, "I'm everybody's catalyst...
Rickey not only changed the strategy of baseball management; he helped change the very tone of the game. In the early 1900s baseball was dominated by rowdies and gamblers. Rickey, a strict Methodist who never drank or swore (his strongest epithet was "Judas Priest!") and refused all his life to attend ball games on Sunday, gave respectability to the sport. He lectured his players endlessly on strength of character and nobility of purpose. "Luck," he liked to tell them, "is the residue of design." He popularized "the Knothole Gang" and Ladies' Day-designed to attract a proper citizenry...
...Despite strict malaria discipline, the Department of Defense reports that ten Americans have died in Viet Nam this year from cerebral or other complications, and researchers are intensifying the hunt for new drugs. One that shows some promise is DOS (diaphenylsulfone), normally used in leprosy. Another is a new, long-acting sulfa drug, Fanasil. Malariologists are running tests with prison volunteers to see whether DDS or Fanasil can be used, probably in combination with pyrimethamine, to beat back the chloroquine resistance of falciparum parasites in much of Southeast Asia...
Muzzling the Press. On local newspapers, the regime imposed strict censorship and gave itself the power to take over any newspaper it chose "in the interest of public safety." Censors prevented the Rhodesia Herald, which opposed U.D.I., from putting out an independence extra; and when the paper finally appeared the next day, its pages were studded with gaping white blank spaces-one of them 20 in. long-where the censors' scissors had been at work...
...whipped for ten hours by Vasseur, who looked "mighty pleased with himself." A woman told how he burned her breasts with a cigarette. Vasseur listened impassively, commenting, "It's possible" or "It's plausible." His mother blamed herself. Taking the stand, she cried: "I had a very strict mother. I wanted to spare my son. I sinned in the other direction. It is not he who ought to be on trial. It's me. It is my fault. Punish...