Word: iron-clad
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...always gone his own way. His integrity is as iron-clad as that of the man in his poem: my specialty is living said a man (who could not earn his bread because he would not sell his head) An editor to whom he offered five poems sent him a check for three of them and, rejected the other two. Cummings disdainfully returned the check, and the editor capitulated and bought all five. In spite of his publishers' anxiety, Cummings insisted on publishing one book without a title and others with such bristlers as XLI Poems, CIOPW...
Money was the most critical shortage. With zooming costs and an iron-clad budget, Harrison's designers had to redraw the plans for the Assembly Building nine times to make successive economies in size and building materials. The resulting design was too squat, Harrison thought...
...much, then, for the first section's conclusions and recommendations; except for the limitations of the poll method of research, they are all but iron-clad. They illustrate lacks in General Education which, if allowed to continue, might seriously harm the program, and we hope that the Faculty Committee on General Education will see fit to act on them. The second section of the Report, which will be considered tomorrow, serves to add even more urgency to the Report's proposals...
...Schlesinger the most serious problem now is the increasing pressure in Europe for rearmament with its concomitant diversion of recovery funds. "The only way out," he asserted, "will be by an iron-clad military commitment to the Marshal Plan countries and the immediate resumption of military lend-lease...
...from this morass of penny-pinching and inadequacy one new vista has at last opened. Though the University has relaxed its iron-clad rule only slightly, one department now at least partly shares the spotlight of advance information that General Education once held all by itself. Now the undergraduate with an eye towards dabbling a bit in Social Relations, the concentrator looking for now courses to conquer, and the prospective graduate student all have some sort of concrete preview of what lies behind those 32 brief listings in the back of the catalogue. Perhaps now some of the hasty shuffling...