Word: rigidities
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...integrated its libraries, public buses, golf courses and taxicabs, with department- and variety-store lunch counters to follow school integration. Negro pressure triggered these changes, just as two Negro students entering the University of Georgia last winter helped to topple the entire fac,ade of Georgia's once rigid state segregation laws. But equally important was the graceful acceptance of the inevitable by white Georgians. Their turnabout must be accounted a milestone in the history of the U.S. South...
...Parker, president of A. G. Spalding Bros., the major leagues' sole baseball purveyors since 1876: "Today's ball and the one that Ruth hit are identical. Period." Nor has the manufacturing process in Spalding's Chicopee, Mass, factory appreciably changed. Each ball must conform to rigid specifications, set decades ago by the leagues. Its horsehide cover conceals a cork core wrapped in two layers of rubber and 490 machine-wound yards of five kinds of yarn. Even the cover must meet a fine thickness tolerance of .045 to .055 of an inch. The finished ball must weigh...
...tightly to proper headings, noting elapsed time and speed, the pilots should have no trouble hitting West Berlin. Once there, haze-piercing, coded ground lights could direct them into Tegel with no complex letdown pattern. Tunner's key to a successful lift in bad weather: discipline must be rigid; the pilot can have almost no discretion...
...whether Bumbry's acting was a match for her singing. As for the new production itself, it was typically spare in detail but marred by the intrusion of a few Radio City Music Hall touches: an angelic choir whose halos gradually became brighter on rheostats; a womb-shaped, rigid fish net with ballerinas spread-eagled to its sides...
...Boston, "is called 'walking in the air.' It is just like running in the air. I take three and a half steps in the air before I land." He practiced stretching his arms high above his head to force his body up, learned to keep his legs rigid to lengthen his distance and to reach out as far as possible with his feet before landing in the sawdust...