Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claimed that the leather had become stiff and "gelatinized." Opening the scroll would be similar to the process of unwrapping a cigar. He finally concluded that it would be feasible to unroll the parchment, although the project involved the danger that it would be harmed. Gettens could not give the Archbishop absolute assurance that the 2,000-year-old leather would not be some-what damaged in the process...
...Stiff, formal Captain Harry Crook-shank, 58, a Tory whose shiny top hat, worn in the House of Commons, enrages Labor backbenchers, became Leader of the House. Anthony Eden had originally got the job, but decided that he couldn't do right by it and be Foreign Secretary too. Crookshank, as Minister of Health, will also run the socialized health service...
...whole, Churchill's cabinet looked pretty good to almost everybody. The Tailor & Cutter, London's august arbiter of men's fashions, captivated by the Churchill ministry's "recognition of the Edwardian look" and "its disciplined adoption of the formal white stiff collar and town-wear bowler hat," said that the new cabinet is "the best dressed we have had for a number of years...
...jayvees threatened only twice after that, but a stiff Yardlings defense led by Pat Conmy, Bob Cochran, Dick Koch, Stan Pfahl, and Captain Tim Anderson killed the scoring attempts...
Left Hook, Right Cross. Louis looked wilted, and walked stiff-legged, like a man on stilts. But no one in the crowd, least of all Louis, saw what was coming. And no 'one in the crowd, even the most rabid of Rocky's fans, really wanted to see it. In the eighth, a solid left hook, thrown wildly from Marciano's awkward, hunched crouch, caught Joe flush on the jaw and sent him tumbling to the canvas. Louis had been knocked down in other bouts, and each time he had come up fighting. He did this time...