Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a number in the news last week which was easily mistakable for a first sign of rigor mortis: 148,038. It appeared in the British Admiralty's weekly confessional, representing the number of tons of merchant shipping lost by Britain in seven days (see p. 77). For only three weeks in the entire war had there been losses worse than 148,038 tons. This was more than twice the average weekly loss (63,342 tons), still more than twice the loss of the previous week (58,523 tons...
...book with the zeal of a medieval monk. A Catholic socialist who had spent months in Nazi concentration camps, von Ripper knew persecution at first hand. He filled his book with floggings, cadaverous nudes, autopsical goons, who hacked and bled through its pages with all the angular bleakness of rigor mortis. Three of his pages had to be done over because of small typographical errors. It took him two years of patient etching and hand-printing to turn out 60 copies. If he manages to sell half of them (at $200 a copy), Etcher von Ripper figures he can clear...
...Vetoed a bill (sponsored by Alabama's Starnes) to require deportation of alien spies, saboteurs, drug peddlers and addicts. The President said existing law deals adequately with spying aliens, denounced "the rigor and harshness" of the Starnes proposal for mandatory deportation of alien drug addicts...
This time Lon Chancy Jr. (in his first big role) is hulking, dim-witted Lennie, who looks like a moronic Mr. Deeds, has a well-meant, heavy-handed way of stroking puppies, mice and young women into rigor mortis. Actor Burgess Meredith is George, Lennie's somewhat brighter brain. Betty Field (who meets Director Lewis Milestone's requirements of "just a simple young small-town girl with a body") is Mae, the somewhat floozied ranch wife whose neck Lennie inadvertently breaks...