Word: rigidities
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...nightly movies. Their pay is 25% above comparable jobs in the U.S. and tax free-but they growl about the heat, curse the dust, and count the days until they can return home and buy that restaurant or farm with the money they have saved. Saud's rigid Moslem code imposes added irritants. Books are banned (apparently in fear of subversive literature). Wives are irritated by the Saudi refusal to let women drive anywhere outside the company compounds. Christian worship is forbidden, and services must be conducted surreptitiously by a priest who flies in from Bahrein and gives...
...other issues, also, Der Spiegel's cockiness has hardened into habitual choler. The magazine is more often against than for; it opposed NATO, European union, West German rearmament. Augstein's editorials have frequently been critical of "rigid" U.S. foreign policy, but Der Spiegel approved of the U.S. stand on Suez, argued that the more "fluid" U.S. foreign policy that resulted lessened the danger of war and improved the outlook for German reunification...
...have been copied from, or at least inspired by, illustrations. The scenes pictured were not chosen at random from the whole Bible, but illustrate individual books, carefully following the text from beginning to end, thus strongly indicating an accompanying text. And this is particularly surprising, because the Jews had rigid prohibitions against pictorial representations of Scripture. Archaeologist Kraeling's explanation: during the period of close contact between Judaism and the Hellenic world, the Jews must have translated their sacred literature into Greek "to bring the contents of the Biblical books to the attention of the cultured Greek-reading public...
...months China's Red bosses had been emphasizing the dangers of "great-nation chauvinism," i.e., rigid Soviet rule of other Communist nations, and they had expressed sympathy for Poland's demands for greater independence. Last week, however, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party did an about-face, announced that while great-nation chauvinism was still a problem, "it is also necessary to overcome nationalist tendencies in smaller countries...
Diagnosis is far more accurate nowadays because much has been learned about the variability of angina symptoms. These were formerly supposed to follow a rigid and classic pattern, with a viselike tight pain in the chest, radiating to the back and down the left arm, accompanied by fear of impending death. With the realization that one or more signs may be missing, doctors are diagnosing angina earlier and oftener...