Word: stricting
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...learn to drop in there quick. A lot of tired old horses run on the bull rings, but you learn you can win on 'em if you can get 'em to duck in or out at the right moment. Another thing: the stewards are not so strict. You can ride the way you want to, pretty much...
...roots in real life are better fed, and the vital shapes of a permanent feeling and experience are filling her child face. She no longer lives so one-sidedly, and is beginning to accept her weaknesses as well as her strengths. As a result, she makes fewer strict rules for herself and sets fewer standards for others. Her innocence of the world is warming to a womanly kind of realism...
Fred Lombardi of La Flamme Barber Shop felt that the rise would not really affect the net pay of his barbers, who work on a strict commission basis. "Now," he said, "instead of fifteen customers a day each barber may get only ten. The difference will be that we work less...
...defeats in his false-premise logic and steal the headlines by explosive charges of warmongering. Last week he seemed sadly hampered by the new rules imposed by the Spirit of Geneva. The relaxation it had produced in Europe was serving the Kremlin well, and Molotov was apparently under strict orders not to spoil this pleasant atmosphere...
...senior member of the Faculty recalls, "In those days nobody particularly wanted girls around anyway." Most undergraduates of the time lived not in College-owned dormitories, but in rooming houses scattered around the Square. These houses, though lacking official proctors, were run by immensely respectable old ladies, whose strict enforcement of propriety would make today's Masters seem irresponsible rakes by comparison. Parietal rules in rooming establishments and dormitories at that time were strict and simple: no lady could enter a student's room at any hour without a parent or proctor as chaperone...