Word: rigidities
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...product of those tests is a 6g-ft. 5-in. hull of Honduras mahogany that took nine months to build. Gretel's sails were cut from 13,970 yds. of light blue Dacron imported from the U.S.; her go-it, extruded aluminum mast was constructed to such rigid specifications that four one-thousandths of an inch was shaved off one section to make sure that its center of gravity was correct. "This is a national project," said Sir Frank, and Aussies everywhere were caught up in the excitement. One company donated bronze, another turned it into screws...
...government promptly alerted health officers in southern England to a possible outbreak of the dread disease. Bacon's widow and two daughters, and a dozen friends from the Microbiological Laboratory near Salisbury where he worked, were all under rigid medical surveillance, and all were getting dosed with antibiotics. So were 30 members of the staff at Odstock Hospital, where Bacon died. It was left to a War Office board of inquiry to try to determine just how a man with ten years' laboratory experience had contracted his fatal infection...
When Sam was 13. his father's health failed, and by the rigid seniority rules governing the Newhouse clan, the oldest male child took over as head of the family. Sam's qualifications for this office were fewer than his years: a grammar-school education at Bayonne's P.S. 7, plus whatever acumen he had absorbed in a business course in Manhattan (to save the 3¢ ferry fare, young Newhouse toted
...shot in Strangers defies mental erasure: grey, panoramic views of Manhattan steaming like a witch's cauldron; two boys slugging it out in a hysteria of violence in one of those brick-strewn empty lots that pockmark the city like bomb craters; a woman's clothed and rigid body floating just below the surface in a bathtub, her open eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime in Manhattan...
...light up the path of strolling couples or warm them when the night turned chill. Some 1,100 guests ate in the grand saloon and danced the twist in the long library. Henry Ford's daughters, Charlotte and Anne, were there, as was Richard Pershing, grandson of the rigid old soldier...