Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, the American position on specific problems often seemed, in latter-day diplomatic parlance, to be "rigid." To the U.S., the British view sometimes seemed best symbolized by an umbrella and bent toward dangerous compromise. Areas of discussion...
Even those imperial officials most anxious to break with the rigid past recognize the danger of fatally damaging the institution of royalty itself. Court ladies declare that Michiko "will always be regarded as 'the girl from outside.' " Old women giggle that the Shodas come from the Kanto Plain, the proverbial home of "high winds and nagging wives." An elderly businessman tells his friends: "Enjoy the royal wedding; it is the last one you will see in Japan...
...dreamed of the 24 hours we spent in Ravenna." Tillich built up an increasingly fruitful career of writing and lecturing; between 1924 and 1933, he taught theology and philosophy at the universities of Marburg, Dresden, Leipzig and Frankfurt. But darkness was closing in: "Gradually life changed around us, became rigid and timid...
Somehow this Matterhorn of warmed-over cabbage is not without a certain grandeur, and Director Wolfgang Staudte (Murderers Among Us) has made the most of it. He has dissolved the greasy German sentimentalities of his story in a lovely bath of light and Agfacolor. He has reduced the rigid forms of the stage play to the flowing substance of cinema. And he has aroused his actors to some very fine performances. Actor Messemer skillfully suggests a man who is more than he seems, while Actor Biberti devastatingly portrays a man who is less than he thinks. As for Actress Schell...
...farms. Totting up the biggest outlays, he found that ten large operators siphoned off $3,447,902.81 in price-prop money, $557,495-35 in soil-bank funds. By comparison, 1,227 farmers in tiny Delaware altogether drew but $917,286 from the soil bank. "The high rigid support program is little more than a Government guarantee on the operations of corporate-type farming," charged Williams, "and actually encourages and underwrites absentee ownership to the detriment of small farmers...