Word: iron-clad
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...tournament committee last year passed an iron-clad rule that a player arriving more than 15 minutes late to a match would automatically forfeit, Barnaby said...
Perhaps the biggest problem the Harvard team will have this afternoon will be staying awake. The Harvard Department of Athletics, adhering to its iron-clad policy of busing whenever possible, has ruled out the possibility of an overnight to New Haven, and as a result the team bus will have to depart from Cambridge at the ungodly hour...
...facilitate this work, the police department has purchased some 24 armored vehicles from the Ford Motor Co. of the U. S. The cars, which are double iron-clad and made to withstand bullets from M16 rifles, have a capacity of eight men and are equipped with M60 machine guns...
...beginnings of a free and humanistic politics and an end to the politics of confrontation and ultimatum. For the politics of ultimatum, no matter which side plays them, are emotionally and intellectually as nourishing as spittle. No matter which side is taking reprisals, and no matter what exalted iron-clad principles motivate those reprisals, it is still a politics of fear. And the only offspring of fear is bitterness and hatred...
Babe makes another point against the committee system: it has made drama political: "Without a specific policy about the relative value of kinds of productions that can be done in the theatre, without a policy above the level of collected and iron-clad prejudices, the building seems to me like a facility, a thing to be used by anyone with the ingenuity or brains or persuasion to get control. That is not really a free theatre at all, since talented people not adept at polities are going...