Word: stricting
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...whom have troops fighting in Korea, sent stiff notes. U.S. Ambassador John Muccio, hurrying back from an interrupted U.S. vacation, spent almost two hours telling Rhee in fuller detail what was on Harry Truman's mind. U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie sent a note pleading for "strict adherence to constitutional and democratic processes." Rhee's followers became a little nervous over a hush-hush "patient" in a U.S. Army hospital, just 400 yards from the Korean Assembly hall. There, under U.S. protection, lives John Myun Chang, recently Premier of Korea and onetime Korean representative to the U.N. Chang...
...move east, loaded his wife & children on a farm wagon, tied his cows on behind and fled to the West. The police had orders to shoot on sight anyone found in the first eleven yards of the isolation belt. Life in the bordering belts was hedged with a strict curfew from dusk to dawn...
This week, after more than 40 days of fasting, Evangelist Ivie, still hoping for a sign from God, prayed weakly in his bedroom. Hollow-cheeked (he has lost about 30 Ibs.), he gave his family strict orders that no doctor is to be called, even if he loses consciousness. "If the Lord wants me to die," he said, "I'm ready...
...crowds turned up for furniture or household appliances. One reason: the banks, which ultimately set the credit terms offered by retailers, were proceeding with caution. The American Bankers Association asked member banks to go slow on "easy credit" terms. Warned A.B.A.: the terms should at least be strict enough to force the purchaser to pay for his item before it wears out. California's Bank of America cut its 15% down payment to 10% on radio and TV sets, stretched installments from 18-months to 24. It demanded 30% down for autos, allowed 30 months to pay. Manhattan...
...rejuvenative meeting was divided into four blocs. Surveying the Lamont Forum Room from the platform, one could recognize the executive board of the HLU on the left, the president of the Southerners Club and friends to the right and farther back, and the leftovers from the old club, the strict partyliners, in the front. Outside the pale, lurking against the far wall; were fifteen Young Republican spies, who were at the moment vigorously applauding...