Word: rigidly
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...been killed.Uys began writing plays criticizing Apartheid while attending college in Cape Town in the 1960s. As a gay man living under a government that criminalized homosexuality, estranged from the white community and legally prohibited from associating with other ethnic groups, Uys struggled to find a place within the rigid social politics of South Africa. During this time, Uys found the medium that would define his career: one-man comedies. “Elections and Erections” continues Uys’ tradition of performing as a variety of male and female characters. On stage, he is able to explore...
...Observers estimate that conservatively there are at least three or four dozen more players good enough to make the jump. And most of them are ready to go. They are attracted to the higher pay and prestige of the major leagues and eager to be free of the rigid Japanese style discipline and the excessive practice of the Japanese system. As expatriate American pitcher Jeremy Powell, who plays for the Softbank Hawks, puts it, "These guys can't wait to get to the States...
...eight children the same family values they'd learned from their own parents. "We taught them to work hard," he says, and also gave them "a sense of austerity. Children should not be given everything they ask for. In my day our parents didn't give in to us." Rigid discipline and corporal punishment were common, he recalls, both at home and at school, and women's roles were largely limited to the family. Though he says his daughters share his traditional values, all five of them work. Sánchez, who has 14 grandchildren, argues that working women miss...
...days, just before the turn of the century. In an October 1897 article, George P. Rowell explains the paper’s sudden success. Instead of cutting rate, the staff upped the ante with a “strict insistence upon absolutely trustworthy and impartial news reports, and a rigid maintenance of its apt motto, ‘All the news that’s fit to print.’” The effect on circulation was undeniable, and it proved to Rowell and the world “what may be accomplished by a clean, progressive newspaper...
...Subsequent media outcry in Britain has painted a picture of the deplorably low tolerance some nations have for religious ideas. It has revealed a rigid conformity to secularism, a sense of blind nationalism and a lamentable distrust of the other belief systems...