Word: rigidness
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...Early Years HUGHES: In your cartoons there's this character, very clean cut, straight, with a rigid suit. Is that your...
...have repeatedly charged that too many officers have become cautious bureaucrats, adept at Pentagon politics perhaps, but interested more in advancing their careers than in preparing for the brutal exigencies of combat. In an era of unconventional warfare and low-level guerrilla struggles, military reformers sometimes fear that a rigid military-academy mind-set is geared to yesterday's wars of attrition. They question whether West Point is turning out the kind of officers that the nation needs...
...theme of the tango is sexual entanglement and male domination of the female--Latin machismo, in other words. The man's upper body is rigid, and the woman revolves around him; down below, their legs and feet meet and embrace in steps too involved even for a computer to comprehend. "The tango is a connection between the brain, the heart and the legs," says Virulazo Orcaizaguirre, 58, who looks like a Hispanic Rodney Dangerfield but moves like a slim lad of 20. "First, you feel with your heart. Then the brain tells you what to do with your feet...
...Point is a powerful experience, but it does not totally mold its graduates. Their values have already been established before they enter. My class ('69) included almost every ethnic, religious and racial group and, although basically conservative, was a good cross section of America. We did not have the "rigid military-academy mind-set" to which your article referred. You are perpetuating a popular misconception. I am sure today's cadets are much the same as we were. Gary L. Schappaugh Garland, Texas...
...third time in six weeks, the stalemate over Gramm-Rudman nearly paralyzed the Government. The amendment, a rigid formula for budget cutting that has aroused concern even within the President's Cabinet, is attached to a bill to raise the national-debt ceiling to more than $2 trillion. Congress was faced with the threat of the Government going bankrupt in a matter of days unless the debt limit was increased. Failing once again to reach a compromise on Gramm-Rudman, the legislators granted the Government a one-month extension on its borrowing power. Upshot: by Dec. 12, Congress...