Word: rigidities
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...same day that the first Chicago-area poisonings became public knowledge, he had taken three capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol from a bottle that his wife Terry had bought two weeks earlier. "Everything became very blurry," he related. "I'm told I passed out and became real rigid." Terry got him to a hospital, where he was treated for four hours and then released at his own request. Back home, Blagg related, he switched on the TV and caught reports of the Tylenol deaths near Chicago. He took apart some capsules from his own bottle, found pink flecks...
...desk in a small private room near the Oval Office, I sat alone in the dark, troubled by an uneasy feeling that would not go away. Our signed agreements with Iran prescribed a rigid procedure for handling the funds, after which our hostages would be released. Everything seemed to be going well, except for that lingering concern in the back of my mind. I turned on the light and went down my handwritten list of sequential events that would have to take place. Finally, I realized that the Bank Markazi, Iran's central bank, had not sent the technical...
...describe PFC Joseph White, who defected to North Korea [Sept. 13], as an earnest, straightarrow, all-American youngster, too shy to be popular, and unabashedly patriotic. That is just the point. Such a severely self-disciplined and rigid personality is exactly the type that would defect to more tyrannical conditions...
...maintain an active, creative policy in the region, or whether, as it has so many times in the past, the U.S. will lose interest once the immediate crisis is over. If the U.S. does not seize this opportunity, the various parties are almost sure to return to then" rigid, entrenched positions. The result, sooner or later, would be more bloodshed...
...bodies were lifted from the agonized postures of sudden death and shrouded in brown blankets by volunteer civil defense and Red Cross workers, wearing gas masks against the stench and rubber gloves to fend off the toxins from the decaying flesh. Frantic clusters of Palestinians gathered around the rigid, pathetic bundles. From time to time, one of the onlookers would shriek in horror, catching sight of the distorted features of a friend or family member. At one point, a woman torn by grief stood over one of the bloated corpses waving a scarf and a handful of personal letters...