Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rigor of Tsar Nicholas I's police and the general air of repression inside Russia disturbed Minister Brown. So did the Tsar's press censorship...
...eight weeks, sometimes 16. Classes meet two or three nights a week, for an hour or more. Each "college" offers whatever courses its faculty can teach. There are no compulsory tests, but the voluntary tests are as stiff as an accredited college's. They are marked with military rigor. Students in dear old "SNAF U" (a name invented by Guantanamo Base's students) either "pass" or "fail...
...Lublin government's new semiofficial press agency, reported violent resistance to Lublin's efforts to draft its new army, assassination of officials who tried to enforce the decree. Lublin blamed "internal delegates" of the Polish Government in Exile for these "gangster attacks," threatened them with "the full rigor of the law." "All good Poles," said Polpress, greeted the draft with enthusiasm...
Thunder Rock (Charter Films), an odd one made in England two years ago, combines, in equal parts, theatrical rigor mortis with some unusually intense acting and sincere thinking. Its story...
...enjoys his collections of antique Persian rugs and Chinese figurines as much as his French pictures. For four years he has moved his collections through a series of U.S. hotels and rented houses. The works are casually placed around his rooms, and never hung or lighted in a rigor mortis of possessiveness. Remarque lets his dogs sleep on three or four thicknesses of rare rugs...