Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young people, the elders would and do say, have lost the pioneering spirit. By this the older generation means that the country's youth have tried of leading lives of rigid discipline, though danger seems as near as ever...
...that the nation's youth have not known what it is to build a country from nothing. The young people, the elders would and do say, have lost the pioneering spirit. By this the older generation means that the country's youth are unwilling to lead lives of rigid discipline, though danger seems as near as ever...
...what did the victory mean, and what will it bring? Will it inspire advocates of the New Politics-young, rebellious and impatient for change-to greater battles and more broken heads? Will it solidify the silent masses of settled, older Americans into rigid and angry resistance? Mayor Daley's mail count, despite press objections to his tactics, is running 20 to 1 in his favor...
...going to the trouble of assembling structures under the sea, for example, Buehler suggests prefabricating them out of Nitinol set below seawater temperatures, cooling and compressing them and then airdropping them-still cooled -into the water. Raised above their transitional temperature by the water, they would unfold and remain rigid on the ocean bottom...
French builders have traditionally been plagued by lagging technology, rigid construction codes and indifferent workers. Now even their ancestors seem to be conspiring against them. Almost everywhere the builders excavate for foundations, it seems, they uncover new and exciting archaeological ruins that Minister of Culture André Malraux deems more important than any immediate construction...