Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest political livestock in the U.S. [But] we've reserved until this morning the prize human animal for your approbation." Stevenson was keeping up his record of an aphorism a day. To New York Publisher Dorothy Schiff, at the height of the convention tiredness, he had said: "intellectual rigor mortis...
Many students; wanted a chance to do creative writing. "For others our rigor was greater than they were willing to accept," Martin said. "However," he continued, "I think that those who did accept it, whether they have the talent or not, found that it strengthened their style. The ones who most resented it were the ones who most needed...
Leonardo's name conjures up a heavy-browed, sad, hawk-eyed man, with a straight nose, mouth firm to the point of cruelty, and a flowing silver beard. In contrast to that awesome image of masculine rigor, it also recalls the dark, soft femininity of his most famed creation-the Mono. Lisa. This painting, which hangs in the Louvre, is probably as well known as any in existence-though few admirers pretend to grasp it fully. A portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, it has been the subject of a towering stack...
...institution," said the dissenting opinion, "the electoral college suffered atrophy almost indistinguishable from rigor mortis ... At its best, it is a mystifying and distorting factor in presidential elections which may resolve a popular defeat into an electoral victory. At its worst, it is open to local corruption and manipulation ... To abolish it and substitute direct election of the President ... would seem ... a gain for simplicity and integrity of our governmental processes...
Obviously Watson cannot maintain the suspense very much longer. He must decide soon whether to apply the rule with hair-splitting rigor, whether to drop it altogether, or whether to take on the formal duties of adviser himself. Because the idea of sponsors seems here to stay, and because rigorous application would distort the rule's purpose, the Deans' Office should fill in as advisers until it can find faculty members or alumni willing to undertake...