Word: rigidness
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...John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes and founder of a spa for health faddists that he ran at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907 and 1908. As Boyle caricatures him, Kellogg was half charlatan and half believing zealot, an early whooper-up of overnourished America's chronic food fear. Rigid vegetarianism, fasting, sexual abstinence and abdominal massage were among his nostrums. But his favorite was "colonic irrigation" -- enemas administered as often as five times...
...interview with TIME the First Lady is not the mechanical or rigid woman of her 60 Minutes appearance or of the early campaign. In the space of half an hour, she laughs heartily one minute, recalling a raucous lunch with her staff; then her face goes all to putty, and she has to apologize for choking up as she recalls someone's kindness in the aftermath of her father's death. She is happiest when she remembers time alone with the President: just the two of them on Valentine's Day going down to the movie theater...
AMERICAN OFFICIALS PORTRAYED Vancouver as the first step in a two-stage process, the next and bigger step coming from the G-7. Quite as important as the total sum agreed on -- as high as $30 billion in some estimates -- is a loosening of the rigid rules that kept much of last year's $24 billion package on the shelf. The main portion will again be aimed at shoring up the ruble; Moscow's failure to slow down the money-printing presses last year forced international backers to withhold stabilization funds. Russia also lost access to promised aid when...
History provides no explanation, either. Francisco Franco, a rightist generalisimo who received aid from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the early years of his four-decade-long dictatorship, tried to impose a rigid moralistic and nationalist ethos upon Spain. Liberal intellectuals and partisans of Basque, Galicia, and Catalonia culture bristled under Franco...
...benn increasingly controlled by rigid anti- development forces," said Phoebe Bruck, who calls herself an advocate of "sustainable development...