Word: rigidities
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...entering the great, drafty hall with its canopy of ancient oak, a great silence enfolded them. Footsteps were muffled by brown carpet, and the crowd divided into two lines, which passed on both sides of the catafalque. At the four corners stood tall candles and, nearly as rigid as the candlesticks, the honor guard, which solemnly changed every 20 minutes. As the people of Britain passed the casket, they dropped flowers-snowdrops, white carnations, daffodils. Before going out into Palace Yard, each one paused and looked back. Often dignitaries would enter the hall through another door. But though the queue...
What made the scandal possible was the academy's rigid honor code-and, perhaps, the high-pressured tempo of a relatively new institution still on shakedown maneuvers. Academy exams, like those at approximately one-fifth of the nation's colleges, are conducted on the honor system, without proctors. At Colorado Springs, students may take the same tests days apart. As potential officers and gentlemen, cadets are expected not to cheat. Those who fail to report a cribber are subject to the same stiff punishment (expulsion) as the cheater himself.* The cadet manual warns that "there will...
...Make both sides of the neck contract at the same time to the maximum ex tent; hold for six seconds, with head, neck and chest rigid. The skin should rise over the upper chest...
...natives observe a rigid noonday ritual. The social elite-a breezy clique called the Palisades-Brentwood Singing and Drinking Association-hold court at cafeteria tables reserved by custom for them. Near by, like ladies in waiting, two plain girls snatch at conversational crumbs tossed by a pair of homecoming queens. At another table are the "social rejects"-girls on the fringes of the elite whose boy friends are now tired of them. "They are still allowed to go to parties," explains a guide, "but they aren't in on the really big decisions, like who the elite will back...
...think we may have lost concentrators in recent years by insisting on a rigid set of requirements. Chemistry is no longer a rigidly definable field. It extends from molecular biology at one extreme to chemical physics at the other, and students intending to pursue different branches of chemistry should be permitted to satisfy concentration requirements with different sets of courses...