Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vermont's able, gentle George Aiken, who had helped write a sliding-scale program for the Republican 80th Congress, took up the defense of the Anderson bill. The whole idea, he said, was to get away from the increasing government controls which rigid supports would surely bring. Besides, by reducing the support level when farm production was high, farmers would not be tempted into overproducing at government expense. Said Aiken: "Let us not look for a check from the government as the first line of attack in the battle for farm prosperity. Let us work first...
...years ago when angular, handsome British Sculptress-Painter Barbara Hepworth agreed to look on at a surgical operation, she was afraid she might faint. Instead she found herself "fascinated by the complete perfection of the movements, more rigid and precise than those of a ballet . . . the remarkable tension, lighting and grouping...
...sparked with the standard vituperation. The peace-loving U.S.S.R., cried Vishinsky, was "ready to answer . . . blow for blow" any threats of "the black array of warmongers" in the West. He called on the Assembly to 1) condemn Anglo-American warmongers, 2) impose an "unconditional prohibition of atomic weapons and . . . rigid international control," and 3) call upon the Big Five to sign "a pact for the strengthening of peace...
Bandleader Artie Shaw had tried feeding long-hair music to shorthair audiences (in Manhattan's Bop City-TIME, April 25) and wound up, at least figuratively, "with egg on my face." But he had learned a lot: "Let's face it, I was being pretty rigid...
When the Western powers occupied Germany, they tried to re-establish a democratic press by the paradoxical method of rigid controls. The U.S. Military Government, like the British and French, carefully screened all applicants, barred former Nazis, and gradually licensed a small number (57) of papers in its zone. The licensees were told they would be closed down if they advocated anti-democratic ideas...