Word: overrigid
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...decade since he became Chancellor of West Germany, oaken-faced Konrad Adenauer has acquired in the minds of his countrymen the stature of a stern father-awe-inspiring, sometimes overrigid, the living symbol of righteous and unshakable purpose. But, though the public has seldom seen it, there is an obverse side to Adenauer's character: a nagging, emotional mistrustfulness that can convert him in the blink of an eye to a man of angry impulse. Last week Konrad Adenauer, 83, gave full rein to his impulsiveness and by doing so flawed an unsurpassed international reputation for rock-like consistency...
...rebelled against excessive emphasis on law and scholarship, which seemed to confine Judaism. They were cheerful mystics who insisted on sharing their personal inspirations with the whole community. Buber, a leading collector of Hasidic lore, is in a sense himself a zaddik. He too rebels against the overrigid emphasis on the law. But he has also moved away from the "enlightenment" of 18th and 19th century Jewish thinkers (which led to Reform Judaism). He distrusts all philosophical systems. His is less a way of thinking about God than of personally relating...
...time to think in terms of taking the offensive in the world struggle for freedom and of rolling back the engulfing tide of despotism . . . Even today the Communist structure is overextended, overrigid and ill-founded. It could be shaken if the difficulties that are latent are activated...
...atomic scientist, author of the famed Smyth Report on atomic energy and onetime chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton, announced that he is willing to serve a new five-year term as Atomic Energy Commissioner. Despite the irksome demands of congressional committees and the often overrigid security rules which had long since driven a whole parade of top scientists out of the AEC, Commissioner Smyth, after two years in the job, thought he had a patriotic duty to stick it out. Said he: "Developments during the past year have brought such new scope and urgency to the atomic...
Money shows a slightly firmer tendency, despite the fact that call funds have again gone back to the 2% midsummer rate. Nevertheless, the overwhelming sufficiency of funds here precludes much danger of an action in interest rates according to overrigid ideas of business cycles...
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