Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman for him, were the worst yet. The fact that she also happened to be his host's wife caused him no hesitation. He wooed & wedded the girl despite the continuing objections of a California court. Sweet-faced Laraine Day was only 26, a girl of strict Mormon upbringing who neither drinks, smokes nor swears. The Leo & Laraine Page One stories did neither Durocher nor baseball any good. The Catholic Youth Organization of Brooklyn (50,000 members) is boycotting the Dodgers so long as Durocher runs them...
...pack of Luckies or all the food on his ration card for one month plus his room rent, or one term's worth of legal training at the University. When professional coal thieves moved in from Hamburg (where competition had grown too heavy and the police too strict), he had a little trouble. The newcomers, working in large groups at freight yards, netted several tons a night and sold them through a central organization at fixed prices. They disliked small-time operators like Klaus, who undersold them. But after a little rough stuff, Klaus agreed to conform...
...pampered nor permitted to break loose again down the road to totalitarianism. However, it is difficult to see how this program is to be implemented if the occupying powers, as the Secretary suggests, reduce their forces below the present strength. Redemption can come only under strict supervision. Democracy is just a word to the German today, and it will never become more merely by flat. For though the statics of democracy may be learned by rote, the dynamics must be bred into a people over a period of generations--merely teaching the Germans to hold elections is not enough...
...Communist daily, an old Ba Gu addict if there ever was one, swore off the filthy stuff. Originally, said a learned note in the Worker's "Recruiter" column, Ba Gu was a Manchu civil-service test which "had no content at all but had to conform to very strict rules of form and rhetoric." Now the Chinese Communists were against it, and so> was the Daily Worker...
Fire Laws Strict Here...