Word: rigidities
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Against such accomplishments, notably development of new missiles, aircraft and ordnance, McNamara's critics charge him with large debits. He burdened controversial proposals with a rigid approach that gained enemies in Congress. Partly for this reason, he was never able to fully implement good ideas such as reform of the National Guard and the Army Reserve...
...years, club manufacturers have been trying unsuccessfully to improve on the now-familiar stepped steel shafts that replaced hickory in the 1920s. Fiber-glass shafts, for instance, are whippier than steel, but their extreme flexibility only tends to exaggerate flaws in a golfer's swing. Aluminum is more rigid than fiber glass, and lighter than steel. The lighter shaft allows manufacturers to put more weight into the club head. The result for the golfer: a faster swing with the same effort-and increased distance on each shot. Another advantage of the speeded-up swing is that the club head...
Spellman lost a measure of power with the death of Pius XII, and his conservative theology and sometimes rigid ways set him apart somewhat from the new church. Yet he enjoyed his greatest triumph when he played host to Pope Paul VI in 1965-the first time that any Pope had set foot in the Western Hemisphere. The cardinal had grown feeble in recent years, but he kept up his round of appearances at dinners and parades. It was appropriate that just a few hours before he died he had stopped in at two dinners at the Waldorf-Astoria, including...
...father, a hosiery executive, died when Rudi was eight. He detested school because of its "rigid militaristic atmosphere." His sanctuary was the dress shop run by one of his aunts. He became so enthralled with the world of dress design that plans were made to send him to Paris to become an apprentice in a major couture house. But Hitler's armies were threatening Europe, and instead of going to Paris, Rudi's mother, who died two years ago, fled with her only child to America just before the Anschluss in 1938. Gernreich...
...upper-class, priest-run school comes a new boy, Georges (Francis Lacombrade). He is 16, handsome, intelligent and reserved. The school is rigid with discipline and clerical policing, up tight with sexual tension. In this tensely celibate world, Georges is shocked to discover that the classmate who first befriended him is having a love affair with another...