Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pointed to the British Commonwealth, to the overseas territories of Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Portugal. And Bevin said what the union could not be-a system for dominating the smaller states. Said Bevin: "It must be a spiritual union . . . more of a brotherhood and less of a rigid system...
...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...
...Columbia, S.C., after a three-year study, the National Malaria Society's Journal reported some cheering statistics. Aboard some 28,000 planes entering the U.S. annually from malaria-infested areas were "several thousand" mosquito stowaways. But only 11% wriggled through the rigid quarantine curtain and arrived alive at New Orleans, Miami and Brownsville. Of these, not more than 20 a year were the exotic, potential carriers of malaria. The chances of this tiny number ever managing to survive and increase, the Journal said, were "infinitesimal and of no quarantine concern...
...play. The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister's wife (Ann Todd) and her confidante (Joan Tetzel); some of the others are acted with solid skill (by Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore), but they remain lay figures-interested but lifeless participants in a rigid, theatrical dance...
Thereafter, we were taken regularly by our parents to the opera as part of our education, which was very rigid and very circumspect. We were never allowed to leave our seats ... to stroll in the lobby with our more sophisticated friends. We were never allowed to go into the refreshment room, save at Christmas time for a holiday...