Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awarding Phillips the first Alaskan oil development contract, the Government set stiff terms. Phillips will have to spend at least $1,200,000 on exploration before June 30, 1956, and another 40? an acre on the million-acre tract every year thereafter. It must also sink two wells by 1956, start another two by the middle of 1958, and drill a well a year in each of the two adjoining districts* (Katalla-Yakataga) from 1959 to 1963, making a total of twelve wells in ten years. Phillips will lose the rights to land it does not develop under the terms...
...keen student of track, the lean (6 ft. 1 in., 165 lbs.) California Negro works as hard at his titleholder's role as an actor who follows the famed Stanislavsky method of living the part. Working in front of a big mirror, he studies his form; after a stiff workout, he again goes to the mirror to see if his face reflects strain. He studies the opposition almost as closely. After a trial heat, when he knows he has to race the same runners again, Whitfield will turn to his closest pursuer and shake him by the hand. Whitfield...
...official attack on a friendly power without precedent in the history of international relations.) The island was important to the defense of the Pacific and doubly important as the base for what was still the best and largest anti-Communist army in Asia. But the State Department maintained a stiff anti-Formosa policy...
...party itself was not an unqualified success. Elizabeth found a crowd of rubbernecks waiting in the street outside when she arrived, and sat in stiff annoyance through most of the evening. Then somehow the news of her visit got into the Times's social calendar next day. Since the Times seldom makes such an announcement unless the news is received from the persons directly concerned, society was in an uproar. But the Fairbankses had at least the satisfaction of knowing that Mayfair's indignation was mixed with a good measure of pure envy...
...original, The Clown consists mostly of variations on one situation: a brave little boy keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of his dad's continual boozing and crapshooting. This he accomplishes largely by saying "Aw, gee" and looking forlornly at the camera. As in the original version, the father dies at the fadeout-in this case, after having made good on a television show...