Word: rigidities
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...their bills on the Sabbath. Lights in the lobby are turned on and off automatically by electric clocks, but any other light left on accidentally must burn through the night, since flicking switches is forbidden. Not until Satur ay sundown is the hotel's rigid observance of the law relaxed...
Last week, the day before the five-year ban was up, two Special Branch detectives caught up with Luthuli in a shop near his farm and handed him a notice. It banished Luthuli for another five years, this time under even more rigid conditions; henceforth he may not even go into Stanger or attend services in the local Congregational Church for fear he would incite other blacks to riot...
...since 1945, the General Education Program as set forth in the Redbook (General Education in a Free Society) has undergone, in the words of the Doty Committee, a process of "erosion." The formal requirements placed on the undergraduate, although riddled by an increasing number of exceptions, have remained fairly rigid. But in assembling the courses that fulfill these requirements, the Gen Ed Committee has had neither the resources to insure that its program was adequate, nor--and this is perhaps its most serious weakness--a rationale for existence that had any real application to the Program as it developed...
...general, our feeling was that the whole structure was becoming static and rigid....If the Committee on General Education could be properly constituted it is likely that it might take a somewhat more venturesome and experimental view of its tasks...
...Viet Cong mining a bridge over which his car was to pass. Driving through the streets of the capital, McNamara was cloaked in a bulletproof jacket. It was, in a way, the most revealing aspect of his visit; never before had McNamara found it necessary to adopt such rigid measures in Saigon...