Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could be devised without being nationalist, rather than internationalist. Most Americans found the program unexceptionable-what there was of it. And there was nothing in it that most Republican leaders had not already endorsed. But a loud denunciation came from Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, who has his own, mathematically rigid plan for world peace. Said he: "The plan will prove a bitter disappointment to the internationalists, who are determined that this time the U.S. shall not cheat the world; and to the nationalists, who are equally determined that this time the world shall not cheat the U.S." Historian Dr. Charles...
...week's end the rigid rules applied to Minister Procopé were relaxed a little when the Department learned that Mme. Procopé will have a child in the next fortnight. And the move did not clarify U.S.-Finnish relations, it turned out; the official announcement said: "This action does not constitute a rupture of diplomatic relations...
Then they saw who it was. "De Gaulle! De Gaulle!"they stammered. One saluted with the wrong hand. The other stood rigid for a long moment, finally lunged into a ramrod salute...
...something, too. Anything but a good play, fissured with faults, encrusted with crudities, it was yet vivid theater. It had also, along with the sprawl, some of the scope of a novel. Its characters did too much and sometimes talked too fancily, but-escaping the prison of a rigid stage technique-they had an absurd, audacious vitality. Best of all, perhaps, Playwright Yordan cared about his people, and in his fumbling way saw life a little as greater writers have seen it-not just as a problem or struggle, but as a changing and clouded dream...
...postponement, not a solution. Even Brewster workers knew that cutbacks-and shutdowns-were inevitable. Brewster's contract had been canceled because the Navy no longer needed so many Corsairs, and because the Navy considers Brewster, harried by bad management and long strangled in one of the most rigid labor-union contracts in the U.S., the least efficient producer. (The Navy said Corsairs cost $72,000 at Brewster; $63,000 at Chance-Vought, and $57,000 at Goodyear, for identical planes...