Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events are born as journalism, die as history. Journalist Mark Sullivan's Our Times is an attempt to delay the process, or at least to arrange the corpse's limbs decently before rigor mortis sets in. Journalist Sullivan knew the dear departed well, arranges the lights and shadows with a friendly and discriminating hand. This third volume of his big work (there will be two more) covers the years...
Inspector Joseph Marcs of the local police came to examine the body. The pistol was still clutched in Wenzel Kokoschka's hand. As the inspector bent to turn the corpse over, rigor mortis caused the corpse's fingers to contract. Corpse Wenzel shot Inspector Joseph through the stomach...
...Martinez, trusty henchman. Under the Argentine Constitution a president can do this whenever he feels like it, can also resume his full original powers by a stroke of the pen. First act of Temporary President Martinez was to declare martial law and clap on iron censorship-but no rigor could conceal the angry disappointment of the people. Those bombs should have meant the end of El Hombre's dictatorship, and they were going to mean...
From house to house, from door to door, uniformed Russian police finecombed the cities of Moscow and Kiev last week, looking for kopecks. Bank officials conferred with mint officials, they agreed that too much Russian small change was disappearing from circulation. Despite all the rigor of Soviet laws designed to keep money in circulation, Russian citizens were up to their old trick of hoarding money, bronze and copper coins in particular...
...British censorship on news despatches out of India has been doubled in rigor since...