Word: ironclad
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...half-ally, half-wooed last year by Senator Pat McCarran's "special" $100 million appropriation (which President Truman has refused to deliver), was playing hard to get over the naval and air bases the U.S. wants. Franco's price: $125 million in MSA funds and an ironclad guarantee that the U.S. will fly to Spain's defense in the event of war with Russia...
...sooner does Mike set eyes on Pat than he signs her to an all-round sports contract. As Mike puts it, "She's nicely packed. Not much meat on her, but what's there is cherce." Mike puts Pat on an ironclad training schedule, along with his heavyweight fighter Hucko (Aldo Ray) and his horse Little Nell. But deep down, Mike is a sentimental slob; before long, whenever he looks at Little Nell, he sees Pat's profile instead. As a result, Pat soon forgets about her former boy friend (William Ching), and girl athlete comes...
...Under the present British system, there are no primaries, and every candidate must be approved by the national headquarters of his party before he can campaign as a party member. The British system produces both the assets and the liabilities of ironclad party discipline...
Under the Moran plan, an ironclad schedule of graft rates was instituted-$10 to $35, depending on the size of an installation. Most of the city's 1,000-odd contractors were thus able to predict the bribe necessary to get a burner or tank certified for operation, and the more venal among them were able to pass the cost along to the customer in their early estimates...
Ideally, an examination tests not only knowledge, but the ability to organize the necessary facts and put them on paper; this is the logic of the time limit. This logic becomes less ironclad, however, when examgoers are forced to waste time and energy battling the eye-strain produced by Fogg's semi-darkness...