Word: rigidities
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...foreign ministers' conference and summit meeting proposals: against the rigid rigidity of Mao and the inflexible inflexibility of Khrushchev, our flexible rigidity cannot win. May I suggest that we switch to rigid flexibility...
...British prosperity in 1959 is still a near thing, maintained only by rigid economic controls, and it could be destroyed at almost any moment by a shift in international trade patterns. To the hard-pressed British taxpayer, the $4.2 billion a year spent on defense represents capital that, if the cold war ended, Britain could devote to the investment on which its economic future depends...
...therefore comforting to note that the Council's Temporary Committee on Elections has come up with a plan to insure that no such issue will be raised again. In its comprehensive report issued last week, the Committee recommended a series of rigid controls to guarantee the efficient and successful conduct of all future voting under Council jurisdiction. No longer will the date of elections be in doubt until the last minute; no longer will even the possibility of inaccurate counting be conceivable. A committee of Council and House Committee representatives will safeguard the ballot boxes and, as the report puts...
...with his head in the clouds of the title; and his students stoop over so their brains can look for profundities while their arses master star-gazing. The playwright achieved a special mixture of satire, criticism, obscenity, invective, wit, fantasy, and lyricism-all within a set of conventions as rigid and complex as those of the 18th-century opera buffa...
...report also called for the establishment of a permanent committee consisting of House Election Chairmen and Council representatives to supervise vote tallying. Rigid controls provided by this group would, the Council felt, "remove as far as possible any element of arbitrary choice or personal preference...