Word: rigidities
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...contrast, Patch spoke briefly on "one of the most conservative of Latin American countries," Peru. He compared the "social mobility" of Bolivian Indians with the rigid class structure of those in the neighboring country...
...Shuman's fiery urging, Farm Bureau delegates approved a massive home-town campaign to convince farmers they should vote no in a national wheat referendum next spring. By their vote then, U.S. farmers will decide whether a rigid new wheat control and marketing plan should go into effect in 1964. The plan, hatched by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, calls for double-barreled controls-with Government limits not only on acreage planted in wheat, but on the amount of wheat a farmer can sell at top price-support levels...
Ayub not to trust any agreement signed by Nehru, because he "knows how to get out of commitments far more binding and rigid." Who was the opposition chieftain? None other than Ayub's own younger brother, Sardar Bahadur Khan...
...decent, we say, don't complain. This is a new kind of Calvinism that allows no individualism. It is a frightening phenomenon and as rigid as any Calvinism ever practiced...
...would try to set in motion pressures within departments to allow students to substitute some other program of study for the thesis in cases where the thesis threatens to become hollow and unprofitable. Perhaps Mr. Jones' gloomy guess is correct; perhaps the attempt to pry departments loose from their rigid and almost mystical commitment to the thesis is founded on an empty optimism. But reform of the senior year has clearly reached the point where it must be effected within the departments...