Word: hidebound
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Wall Street while hundreds of hardhats beat up pedestrians as well as peace demonstrators. Leary has been unable to change hidebound promotion policies that, critics charge, still give credit for blood donations but not for educational advancement. Because the finest stubbornly protect one another, Mayor John Lindsay recently appointed a special citizens' commission to investigate the extent of police graft ?and thereby provoked the patrolmen's association into trying to block the probe in court...
Though Arthur Burns is often described as a hidebound, conservative economist, his writings, speeches and personal remarks reveal that his interests are more catholic and his thinking more flexible than many of his critics suggest. Samples...
...educated" than any before it. And more skeptical: Viet Nam had done little for the image of the military profession, and the Navy was still under the cloud of the Pueblo affair. At Annapolis, Calvert found the engineering-oriented curriculum sadly outdated-symptomatic of the "cultural mismatch" between a hidebound service academy and the young men-black as well as white-he wanted to attract. Some black middies (there are now 38) are even jeered when they try to recruit others back home...
...result, the only ones who watch tennis are those who participate in the sport." Billie Jean has a point. Apart from the most important matches, tennis ranks slightly above barrel jumping and kite flying as a spectator sport. The fault is not with the game but with its hidebound governing bodies. Continually bogged down in petty disputes, they have been more concerned with self-preservation than promotion. Last week Alastair Martin, president of the usually staid United States Lawn Tennis Association, called for sweeping changes. The U.S.L.T.A., he said, "is losing opportunities, causing confusions and creating misunderstandings-not so much...
Alfred snuffling about her. Alfred coming in. Watchit Alfred, bad karma. Bad karma too in Sam's judicial face watched her while she was ministering to young Stefan. Samson the hidebound eastern mutt. Merilee finds her dress and pulls it on over her head. She goes lightly barefoot to the edge of the canyon, expecting still her other half is nearby and waiting...