Word: strictest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added: "I do not believe that in the strictest sense, conservative, exclusively nationally minded administration will survive another election. Neither will an administration that fails to sense changing times and lacks the energy and resourcefulness to meet changing conditions...
...which they still hold) in the parliament. But the mullahs of Islam have reasserted the old customs; the Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, widow of the assassinated Premier and once a militant suffragist, has been forced into a quiet life, and the wife of the new Premier hides uncomplainingly in strictest purdah...
After three days during which the Reds made up their minds to yield to U.N. demands (see col. 2), the negotiators were back at their conference table. The Kaesong talks went on behind an enclosure of barbed wire and strictest secrecy, but the Communists broadcast to the world their conditions for a ceasefire: ¶The opposing armies to withdraw to a distance of ten kilometers (about 6.2 miles) north and south of the 38th parallel; ¶The 12½-mile-wide strip thus created across the peninsula to be under the civil administration of the North and South Korean governments...
Though undated, I presume it to be about the Revolutionary era. For the record, said Asa Walker was a respected deacon of the Unitarian Church of Ashby, Mass, whose forebears were the strictest of Puritans. Shades of Kefauver...
...Hours a Day. The Carthusian Order, founded at the end of the nth Century, is considered one of the strictest in the Roman Catholic Church. Unlike the Trappists, who live and work together in silence, the Carthusians spend most of their time in complete solitude. Carthusian monasteries, which the British call "charter houses," are constructed around a cloister, on which opens each monk's individual house with his private walled garden. The houses are small but include a room for eating, a room for sleeping, a study and a chapel. Each monk has a woodworking shop in which...