Word: iron-clad
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...deep the passions go. The U.S., as Johnson said last week, is now willing to rewrite the 1903 treaty for the remaining life of the present canal, striking out the hated word sovereignty and giving Panama most of what else it wants, but insisting on some form of iron-clad U.S. control...
...best solution is being precluded by a long-standing, iron-clad Corporation rule which forbids Harvard organizations, including the Band, to appear under commercial sponsorship. It would be particularly timely for the Corporation to examine the possibilities of modifying this rule...
Predictably, all this made no detectable dent in the iron-clad convictions of the House's high-tariff camp, led by Pennsylvania's husky Republican Representative Richard M. Simpson. Tariffanatic Simpson is bent on pushing through an amendment that would, in effect, leave tariff power under Congressional control, hatchet the President's power to overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for "escape clause" tariff increases-a power that Ike has used to scotch 14 of the 23 increases the commission has recommended during his five years in office...
Until yesterday's action, the GSAS had an iron-clad ruling that no graduate student could receive more than a total of $2,200. Under this ruling, if a student held a scholarship, he was not allowed to receive more than $900 for teaching...
Equil that iron-clad boat, my mother...