Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Kentucky's awesome margin against a team ranked seventh in the country (before the game) was the result of rigidly disciplined practice sessions where players speak only when spoken to. Explains Taskmaster Rupp: "Practice is the same as chemistry class. Everybody pays strict attention." While most coaches chart players' shots at the basket during games, Rupp goes further: he has assistants busy jotting down every shot his players make in practice. One of Rupp's favorite maxims: "Shooting is to basketball what putting is to golf...
...four, who declared they had planned the escapade since they were freshmen, requested that their names not be printed because they "feared the strict publicity rules." at the 'Cliffe...
Within the strict limits he sets himself, Wyeth's carefully wrought tempera paintings almost invariably succeed in being both clear and convincing. Strangely enough, his watercolors, which he dashes off in a hurry, do too. In them his love of nature (preferably bleak) has much freer rein, and in them he proves himself a delicate and sensitive draftsman, not merely a careful...
...There wasn't even a skeleton organization around to enforce full controls.* But by this week there was such a round of price and wage boosts that the urge to impose across-the-board controls -whether it made strict economic sense or not-had become almost irresistible...
...Ordered at long last strict controls on all goods destined for Red China, Hong Kong or Macao. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer also controlled war-potential goods passing through U.S. ports en route to Russia and satellites...