Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote at places like Davis Inlet and Northwest River. There, in good seasons, they barter their prized Labrador mink and fox pelts; in bad seasons, pick up their Government dole. Only the Indians wage a battle for existence in the virtually unmapped, unknown interior, and they are losing. Where rigor and hardship have failed to decimate them, intermarriage and the ills brought by the white man have succeeded...
...reconstructing the Viru Valley region, the diggers can span the whole sweep of the human cycle, from its primitive beginnings to rigor mortis...
...only fine, authentic moments, barring one searing flare of jealous hatred, are casually domestic and flirtatious. Much of the Turner-Garfield dialogue, which needs the flickering intensity of adders' tongues, is paced and keyed like an erotic discussion between a couple of cats. Finally, a kind of overall rigor artis of anxiety, sincerity and division of purpose chops the scenes badly apart-like oranges in a Christmas stocking...
Geometricians of Virtue. "This retribution, which has a geometrical rigor, which operates automatically to penalize the abuse of force, was the main subject of Greek thought. It is the soul of the epic. Under the name of Nemesis, it functions as the mainspring of Aeschylus' tragedies. To the Pythagoreans, to Socrates and Plato, it was the jumping-off point of speculation upon the nature of man and the universe. Wherever Hellenism has penetrated, we find the idea of it familiar. . . . The Occident, however, has lost it, and no longer even has a word to express...
...destruction of our traffic system as well as our electrical, gas and water supplies." Farmers were officially admonished to increase food production. The Bank of Japan limited reports because of disruption of communications. The Stock Exchange closed down. Japan's battered will to resist began to stiffen in rigor mortis...