Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still frantically trying to get rid of eggs. Warehouse space is badly needed, some eggs are turning rotten (TIME, Aug. 21). Helpfully, eggmen recently tried to buy 47,000 cases stored in Providence. But WFA promptly turned them down: the bids were not so high as WFA's rigid high ceilings. Many eggs turned bad while the price rose...
...meet this psychology realistically and effectively was Washington's task. But the Reconversion War was being fought on rigid lines. The Army, in effect, argued that production be kept up by stern talk, and by denying the implication of the victory headlines. WPBsters wanted to assure workers that the transition to peace would be smooth, to keep men at war work. On this line, Nelson and the Army were prepared to fight it out all summer...
...first to break from the tight, rigid pattern set by the Germans in Poland and the first French campaign. With his U.S. opposite numbers he had widened and deepened the art of making openings for the infantry and supporting troops until it also insured them against any substantial interference from enemy air operation...
Damnation of the Demigods. The 16 could oppose Hitler from the safety of prisoner-of-war camps. Within Germany other Wehrmacht officers had paid with their lives for the bomb plot. Nazi authorities announced only four names of dead ringleaders, but reports sifting through rigid censorship indicated that a ferocious purge of the Army was being carried out, with arrests and executions...
...result is, like Santayana's The Last Puritan, a novel in the form of a memoir, not autobiographical, since it centers on someone other than the author, not fiction, since what it tells really happened, not biography, since it is not confined in a rigid framework of fact. At its best, this type of work combines the narrative interest of fiction with the educative value of biography...