Word: stricting
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...Strict Secret. But on the stage, the Maestro seemed to take hold of himself. He stepped to the edge of the podium, and, with careful gestures, gradually pulled the music together again. At the end of hfs final selection-the Prelude to Die Meistersinger-he left the podium before the final notes had sounded, and let the baton fall from his hand...
That night the papers carried the news which for a week had been kept a strict secret even from his own musicians: Arturo Toscanini, the greatest performing musician alive today, had retired. For almost a fortnight, his letter of resignation to RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff had rested, unsigned, on his desk. Abruptly, on his 87th birthday, Toscanini made his decision, ran upstairs and signed it. Excerpt: "And now the sad time has come when I must reluctantly lay aside my baton and say goodbye to my orchestra ... I shall carry with me rich memories of these years of music...
...years, all British gold dealings have been handled by the Bank of England under strict government control. By letting a free market function once more (but with restrictions on those who may buy gold), the British Treasury hopes to bolster confidence in the pound sterling, bring closer the day when it may become freely convertible with dollars and every other currency in the world...
...prelude to their vaunted classless society, the Peking Reds have tried to put peasants into a set of strict classes: landlords, who own land but do not work it; rich peasants, who own land or rent it from landlords, but work it themselves and hire others to help them; middle peasants, who may own or rent as much land as the rich peasants, but work it entirely themselves; poor peasants, who may own land, but do not own the tools or animals to work it; hired peasants, who own nothing, work for others...
...paper, Swiss federal law looks straightforward and strict enough. It sanctions abortion only if birth of the child would constitute "a danger menacing the life of the expectant mother or seriously menacing her health with a grave and permanent affliction." The gimmick is that in each of Switzerland's 22 cantons the law is interpreted according to the conscience of the majority...