Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, most of them elderly, their faces drawn, stiff, heartbroken, seek among frozen corpses for those who were dear to them. In an intensifying series, the shots show: a dead mother and baby, so frozen that the child's head stands rigid in the air above her bosom; an old woman, crying and stupefied, trying to limber the upthrust frozen arm of a dead...
Through wide gates, completed Stormoviks roll out on an airfield for rigid tests by factory pilots and Army inspectors. If satisfactory, the planes are then handed over to Air Force pilots, who fly them straight to the front...
Somberly, the little man with venom in his heart went home. At midnight, his mind was made up. In the way prescribed by the rigid samurai code, Nakano purified himself with cold water, donned a new kimono, knelt on a pillow before a small shrine. With a sure hand, he plunged a dagger into his belly, drew it across, then turned it upwards...
...Once the rigid rules were broken, Speakers were forced to wield power by tact, persuasion and favors. "Nick" Longworth kept a firm grip on the House through shrewd committee maneuvers; Texas' Jack Garner held sway by means of his long seniority and experience...
Other headaches: many V-12ers will graduate during the height of the football season (all-America Halfback Angelo Bartolo Bertelli leaves Notre Dame Oct. 30 for the Parris Island Marine base); because of rigid schedules, trainees will average only 20 hours of preseason practice (prewar average: 50 hours); age levels have dropped sharply (Princeton, which had averaged a 21-year-old squad, now averages 17 to 18); sudden shifts and mysterious whiskings-away of Naval trainees (said Dartmouth's Coach Earl Brown: "We are supposed to have inherited a wealth of brawn and brain . . . but I can tell...