Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strict, wartime regulations which shut down most of the West Coast's bawdy-houses bothered Lucy not at all. Her local fame and her knowledge of town secrets had long since made her just about immune to the law. By V-J day she had purchased almost $50,000 in war bonds...
...always on the edge of the unknown, scientists cannot plan their campaigns far ahead. Often they wander off in pursuit of fascinating side issues which, to their own surprise, sometimes turn out to be rewarding. The plodding technicians who follow behind the van guard might not be hampered by strict control. But the sometimes-erratic geniuses, who work best unsupervised, would find their style cramped under a nine-man Government Board...
...outset, Professor Erskine phrases his own belief with ambiguous care: "I call this book The Human Life of Jesus not because I don't believe in him, but because I do." But readers will soon see that Professor Erskine is not a Christian, in the strict and simple sense of the word -he is a humanist...
...looks of the Buenos Aires press next day, PerÓn's intimidation had worked wonders. The anti-Government attacks had stopped dead. One rumored reason for the reimposition of strict press control: the former German Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann, had squealed in Germany and implicated, as Nazi connivers, Argentina Army officers, from General of the Army Carlos von der Becke on down...
...Haunt Manhattan's better taprooms in dismal abstinence (Lewis, once no mean tosspot, is under strict doctor's orders not to touch liquor...