Word: stiffens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not Yogis can "induce cataleptic rigidity in a limb or in the whole body" is irrelevant here: it would require not even an "unbelievably strong" man to stiffen sufficiently for the purposes of this trick; nor would he need to "cut adrift from this world and concentrate on the spiritual life to the exclusion of all else." RAYMOND BLAIR...
...Leopold von Hoesch, amazingly blurted to German correspondents in London: "The situation is becoming very dangerous for us. It is uncomfortably like that of 1914-The British are wavering as they did then. But also, as in the eleventh hour in 1914, they are now beginning to stiffen...
...grasps the wheel with his whole strength. His arms stiffen, and he is as likely to steer off the road as along it. His legs are forcibly extended, and his feet are pressed down hard. It is the muscular act that Sherrington, who discovered it in the dog, named the 'extensor thrust.' . . . In so doing [the motorist] presses his foot hard down on the accelerator pedal. If then the first jump of the car sends it along a course where it meets other jolts and bumps in rapid succession, the driver tries in vain to recover the equilibrium...
Last week's meeting at the Coffee House was to try to entice the bolters back into the fold, to stiffen the backbone of the boycotters. None of those who resigned returned. There was a great buzz-buzz-buzz of angry oratory in which the museums were roundly denounced as rackets. About midnight, with the aid of words and whiskey, the Society members had worked themselves up to such a pitch that they were ready to cripple every art show in the land to win their rental crusade...
...decrees. These, in addition to launching the public works program, set up Government agencies for combatting unemployment (chiefly by limiting workers of alien nationality) and to enforce reduction of meat prices, lower bread prices already having been decreed. Fiscal measures, newly decreed, reduce the inheritance tax on farms, stiffen bankruptcy laws to protect creditors, reduce the profit permitted on contracts with the State, increase the profit tax paid by directors of large concerns, reduce the interest rates on commercial loans and generally contribute in involved fashion to the budget-balancing, despite the two added billions expenditure for public works...