Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the State Department once again vouched for Vincent's loyalty, and ordered him back from Washington, where he had appeared before the Senate Internal Security inquiry, to his post as U.S. minister in Tangier. The clearance was a stiff reply to both Joe McCarthy and ex-Communist Louis Budenz who charged that Vincent operated as a Communist sympathizer while he ran State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs between 1945 and 1947. To make the point sharp, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave Vincent his personal assurance of "the department's full confidence . . . appreciation...
Imperial Rome was once so full of sculptures that the inanimate population of the city came close to outnumbering the walk & talk variety. The U.S. is contrastingly cold to sculpture; its inanimate population is largely confined to stiff, solitary, pigeon-besmirched, cast-iron characters in parks. Manhattan's 84-man Sculptors Guild has spent 13 years trying to right the situation, and last week the guild tried again with an exhibition of its members' work at the Museum of Natural History...
...endless line of 305,806 people shuffled past the high catafalque, flanked by guardsmen in gleaming cuirasses and Tudor-clad Beefeaters from the Tower of London. On the third night of the watch, majestic Queen Mary came with her eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, to stand stiff and erect for 20 minutes before her son's bier. Early the next evening, Queen Elizabeth, her granddaughter, slipped in with Philip and Princess Margaret. The widowed Queen came a few hours later, and remained for 20 minutes...
...foreign dignitaries in the rear making a poor show beside the disciplined march of the military. Drab in topcoat and tophat they walked, wearing the abstracted look which the important learn to adopt under the pressure of staring eyes-neither marching nor sauntering, in a kind of compromise stiff-legged strut, along the weary three-mile route. At Paddington they broke ranks at last, milling and chatting discreetly as the coffin was loaded on to the funeral train amid the skirling of pipes. As the train pulled out, a blind in one coach was raised and Britain...
Livorno (or, as the stiff-tongued British rechristened it, Leghorn) was once a busy port and a first-class naval base. Then, in World War II, Allied bombers smashed its port facilities and the retreating Germans blew up its sea wall. A year ago, the U.S. Army decided to make Livorno a big supply base, and sent a white-thatched colonel named Norman Vissering to do it. He found the port operating at 25% of capacity, the townspeople dispirited and 14,000 unemployed in a city...