Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the Constitutional Laws Committee, the bill must pass from there to the Rules Committee, and then to the Senate floor. A hearing before the Constitutional Committee, and another in open forum have pushed Senate Bill 1820 no nearer Rules. Once there it will meet stiff opposition, for, in the past, Rules has served as a gigantic circular file for anti-subversive legislation. Although its chance of passing is unpredictable, there is no doubt about its effects...
Twelve colleges and universities are expected to compete in the tournament. Marion expects stiff competition, especially from the defending champion, New York University. The Violets shared saber honors with Columbia last year and were tops in the epee division. City College of New York took the foil team awards...
...World War II, General Eisenhower and Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery did not see eye to eye on all things military, but they agreed that the best of the German generals they faced was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. The stiff, cold, duty-obsessed old Prussian never joined any plots against Hitler, but he often opposed the Führer's plans and acts, was three times removed from command, and in the end came to despise a man he sometimes called "Corporal Hitler." B. H. Liddell Hart says that von Rundstedt was an abler soldier than Field...
When specific treaties appear, that is the time to ratify or reject. To prejudge them and set stiff conditions destroys much of their value, since by nature treaties rely on mutual trust and presumed freedom to bargain. The advantage of swift international agreement outweighs the needless caution of double-check treaties...
...done by his fellow actors. He had to be ridiculous or they would have overshadowed him by their bizarre performances. Elaine Eldridge played the snuff-taking Ada Lester as though she were Helen Hayes doing Victoria. Mixing sweeping gestures, a tremulous voice (representing both infirmity and rage) and stiff posturings, she had a fine time being the Grande Dame of Back County, Georgia...