Word: rigidities
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...many Americans, too, lost faith in leaders who had betrayed their trust. One who had most blatantly done so was Spiro T. Agnew, an acerbic apostle of righteousness who had thrived as Nixon's Vice President on strident demands for harsh judgments against all who disagreed with his own rigid concepts of acceptable ideology and permissible?but never permissive?behavior. Then, faced with overwhelming evidence of his own criminal corruptness and petty greed in accepting graft from Maryland contractors, Agnew successively claimed innocence, lashed out at his accusers, copped a plea on income tax evasion, and quit...
...Franco chose more-perhaps much more-of the rigid policies that have governed the country since its Civil War. The new President will be Carlos Arias Navarro, 65, who was Spain's top cop as head of the Dirección General de Seguridad, the national security police, from 1957 to 1965. After that he became mayor of Madrid and last June he was made Interior Minister, in charge of state security, in Carrero Blanco's Cabinet. A harsh advocate of law-and-order, he has a wide following among the ultra-right wing, which criticized even...
...right-hand man. The Generalissimo had expected the dour admiral to keep Spain on a rightward course when he himself died and to make certain that his successor as chief of state, Prince Juan Carlos, did not fall prey to liberal ideas. But Carrero Blanco's rigid orthodoxy had made the possibility of violence as predictable as his timetable...
...yesterdays were not an American dream. There were times when they verged upon nightmare. The children of the privileged, then as now, were surrounded by space and leisure and material goods. But the rest of the youthful nation struggled with rigid doctrines and dire economics. The status of children of the past was, in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that of "Foreigners. We treat them as such...
Above all, Rockefeller is the rigid conservative that he now swears he is. He is not tilting rightward to win the nomination, only to tilt to the left after his election. In places like Arizona and North Dakota, speaking before Republicans who are happy with America and cling to the status quo, Nelson Rockefeller is showing his true colors. Listen...