Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Purse-lipped, stiff-necked Dr. (of economics) Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht,* the seeming epitome of bankerly rectitude, has always known how to land right side up. Under Kaiser Wilhelm II he was an ardent nationalist; when the Weimar Republic was popular, he was an ardent Democrat and president of the Reichsbank; when Hitler's strength grew, he became an ardent Nazi: "I met Hitler and told...
...crowd, chatting and milling in the red dust of Nairobi airport in Kenya, alternately looked at the skies and smoothed lapels. Titled whites exchanged greetings with African chiefs stiff in lounge suits, starched collars and shiny black shoes. Young Masai warriors, their headdresses bristling with the manes of lions speared in single combat, impatiently jangled the tiny metal rattles girding their ankles. An R.A.F. corporal dropped to his knees and gave the red-carpeted steps of a nearby dais the final whisk-brooming...
...Teresa of Avila,* the 16th century mystic, never liked the picture that was painted of her at 60 by the pious but uninspired Fray Juan de la Miserias. "God forgive you, Fray Juan," she told him, "for having painted me so very ugly and stiff." But for more than three centuries Fray Juan's painting was the only likeness of St. Teresa the world had ever seen...
...Convair's XF-92 was the first to fly in 1948), airplane manufacturers discovered other advantages of what the designers call "delta configuration." The strain of high-speed flight tends to bend the airframe out of line. Without adding too much weight., the triangular structure can be built stiff enough to eliminate this danger. A relatively thin wing and its short fuselage-have room for fuel tanks, landing gear and auxiliary equipment...
...housing industry, which started 1,000,000 houses last year and had expected enough materials to produce 800,000 this year, will get only enough materials to build 600,000. ¶ The appliance industry, which had expected to maintain the 1951 last-quarter production, got another stiff 10% slash (to 45% of pre-Korea output...