Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 100 who signed for the course failed to survive the rigid physical exam. The remaining candidates were rated on a point credit basis for acceptance into the restricted Flight course...
...State Department sat dry, rigid Sumner Welles, Under Secretary, unbending, unhurried, whose iron purpose is always swathed in the precise delicacies of diplomatic chitchat, perfectly at home in the chill gloom of the State Department, its black waxed furniture, heavy blue drapes...
Because they do not believe in the primacy of the Oedipus complex, a small group of analysts have seceded from the Freudian union. Some of them do not agree that men are bound by primeval, rigid instincts. Others hold that society inflicts more wounds upon personality than the sex instinct. For these rebels, orthodox Freudians, whose feelings run high, have nothing but contempt...
...collective farming, were letting hay rot in the collective meadows. Others were renting their plots, breaking the first Communist commandment by turning landlords. More serious was Pravda's admission that peasants were deserfing many farms. Furious at the never-ending tug-of-war, the Kremlin thundered a rigid new decree restricting all peasant garden plots, setting drastic penalties for collective farm managers who leased land illegally...
Considered by his friends to be the most lively and happy-go-lucky of his rigid grandfather's grandsons, Nelson has shared from childhood the artistic interests of his mother ("one of the most extraordinary persons I've ever met"). At Dartmouth, besides playing two years on the soccer team, he edited a magazine called The Five Arts. In 1930, he married hearty, charming Mary Todhunter Clark of Philadelphia, took her honeymooning around the world and settled in a big remodeled farmhouse near the golf course at Pocantico Hills. Since then they have had five children: Rodman...