Word: ironbound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This could lead to a deep personal religion, and it could also produce a welter of small, off-beat sects, e.g., the Duck River, General Six-Principle, Primitive or Hard Shell, and Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. And all this spiritual nonconformity was often matched by an ironbound, triple-riveted social conformity, designed to keep everything and everybody in its place-especially the Negro...
...Ironbound Patience. Almost as much as money and skill, a tree farmer must have patience. "We've got a long-range crop that summer after summer is exposed to fire," said a Weyerhaeuser man last week, "and we've got to face it for 80 years before we can do any harvesting." Some small operators do not think that they can afford to wait; they cut their lands bare, leave them prey to erosion...
...Bogota, the customs of mourning were ironbound. Even within the last 20 years, mourning still meant black garments, closed doors, no music, no parties, no entertainment. This mode of life lasted for five years after the death of a spouse, parent or child; three years and six months for a grandparent, brother or sister; two years for a cousin, aunt or uncle...