Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened the program. This is fragile stuff--even the rolicking tambourins that come at the end lose all their effectiveness if not played with the utmost delicacy. The performances by violinist Orrea Pernel, cellist George Finckel, and pianist Claude Frank were decidedly unidiomatic. Their tone was harsh, their phrasing stiff, and their technique heavy-handed...
Charlie Cabot, who has been doing most of the short-stopping lately, will receive stiff competition from Walt Greeley (another hockey player) from here on in. McInnis considers Cabot "potentially a very good ballplayer," and Greeley, who saw intermittent service last year, "a very steady performer...
Like eager soldiers at guard mount, Turkey and Greece last week stood at stiff attention, gleaming with spit & polish and full of self-conscious pride, to greet General Dwight Eisenhower. NATO's Supreme Commander had flown over on a quick trip from France especially to welcome Nations No. 13 & 14 into the European Army...
...others, put on a war-criminal purge list in 1946 by General Douglas MacArthur, were de-purged by the Japanese government. Admiral Hiraide died in 1948, but his de-purging is more than a posthumous attempt to blot out the stain on the family escutcheon. Under the original stiff occupation rules, purged men and their direct descendants down to the third generation were to be barred from taking any part in politics. Still on the purge list: 11,800 Japanese, including 5,000 dead...
...both sides girded for next week's referendum, it seemed pretty clear that, even if fluoridation wins, it will have to face a long, stiff fight in the courts...