Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Digging In. Britain's stiff reaction to Egypt's demands did not frighten the Egyptians. They talked of plans to deprive British forces of water, food, electricity and the use of Egyptian roads, harbors and telephone lines...
...Dirty Mountains. Between 1915 and 1924, before he stepped to the helm himself, Herbert Hoover composed this first volume of his memoirs. He tells, in a style as stiff and formal as the old Hoover collar and without much seeming premonition of the momentous events still before him, of his first 45 years. They were the years when he was called The Great Engineer and savior of the hungry-and years of travel, discoveries, successes and adventures. Some future biographer may make a better story of it all, but Autobiographer Hoover has a pretty good memory for significant detail...
...Beirut's St. Georges Hotel. Two American sergeants on leave were pretty drunk and holding forth at the top of their voices about how incredibly stupid Turks are at learning to use tanks. They illustrated their points with considerable detail. Two known Communist barkeepers got an earful, kept stiff drinks coming to the two loud Americans...
...Elohenu velohe abotenu - Our God and, God of our fathers, let our prayer come before thee; hide not thyself from our supplication, for we are not arrogant and stiff-necked, that we should say before thee, O Lord our God and God of our fathers, we are righteous and have not sinned; but verily, we have sinned...
...most celebrated annual ritual, was on. From Bangor to San Francisco, men gathered around television sets, elbowed along bars, huddled beside radios. Business was suspended, politics deferred, and idle conversation shushed. A weather bureau official studied the forecasts and solemnly announced that expected conditions-grey sky, a stiff northeast wind-were good for fastball pitchers, bad for curve-ballers...