Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steps on to the rostrum. Truman led him forward. It was the first glimpse most of the delegates-and most of the U.S.-had of the man who, Democratic orators told them fervently, would be the next President of the United States. While Truman introduced him, Stevenson stood ramrod stiff behind the President, occasionally rising on tiptoe. Then he began reading his speech. After a week of turgid oratory, Truman's included, Stevenson's words struck an entirely new, deeply appealing note. Most delegates had never heard anything like...
Ambassador Kennan wrote an angry protest, adding some stiff comments about Russia's current Hate America propaganda campaign, and fired it off to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Later the same day, a Soviet messenger appeared...
Another patient who went to the circus instead of a cemetery is Little Joe, also eight. Within ten days, isoniazid ended his unbearable headache and loosened his stiff spine and neck. Now Little Joe is the life of the men's ward at Winslow Indian Sanatorium, first up in the morning and (complain the tired oldsters) the last to turn in at night...
...Flew. Sholom Aleichem was a master at capturing the folk poetry and humorous abuses of Yiddish speech, and even in a rather stiff translation something of the verbal crackle comes through. When a character wants to dismiss a story as nonsense, he says: "A cow flew over the roof and laid an egg." The actors' scorn of domesticity is expressed in their saying: "The best marriage is the worst death." When a director wants to tell the angel that the best of plans take money, he cracks: "Without fingers you can't thumb your nose...
ITALIAN SCULPTURE: Milan's Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), whose stiff-legged horses and plump riders have become Marini trademarks...