Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Killearn, continued its efforts to bring the Dutch and the Indonesians together. Former Dutch Premier Willem Schermerhorn, who had blamed van Mook for dealing with collaborators, came out to Java and soon found himself discussing the situation over Scotch & soda with Soekarno, whose Mohammedanism is not so rigid that he scorns a drink...
...Simple Onas. To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego. Their only clothing was a skin cape. They ate meat, seafood and fungi, washed themselves with liver. They did not drink or smoke, had determinedly rigid standards of chastity. They attached no prestige to wealth. They were free of restraints of government, seldom gathering in large groups except to eat a dead whale. They counted up to five only...
...believe that specific requirements should be restricted to specific courses of study in college and we would regret to see a more rigid yardstick of admission applied to able students of diverse school preparation...
...only possible exception to this fairly rigid rule will be guard Saul Marisachin. With probably the best shot on the squad, Mariaschin has brought into this fall's practice the same deadly accuracy that marked his play last year. Although the squad won't spend all its time working into set-shot openings for Saul, it's a good possibility that his arching shots will be used to spread enemy defenses for the fast breaks which are the mark of Barclay's teams...
...firmly that no well-informed observer expected the Republicans to repeat 1920 by pulling the U.S. back into its shell. But much of the world which had forgotten the extreme economic nationalism of the early New Deal remembered the Republican high-tariff tradition and the Republican pledges of rigid economy...