Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three Western powers sent a stiff note of protest to General Vasily Chuikov, the Soviet commander. Best guess among allied officials on the latest Russian maneuver: East Germany badly wants to renew its trade agreement with West Germany because it needs Western goods. Pressure on Berlin, the Reds apparently believe, may force the West to make concessions in the current trade talks...
After the first shock of his marine son's death on Corregidor in the spring of 1942, Joseph Fain of Independence, Mo. reacted just like thousands of other fathers-he kept a stiff upper lip, comforted his wife and went on about his business as if nothing had happened. Fain prospered: he had been a policeman, then a member of an Independence Municipal Light Department line crew; after his son's death, he started his own electrical shop and did well...
...Father Simon sneaked out of his parish without telling anyone what he was going to do. Billed as "L'homme planeur" (the gliding man), and scared stiff, he climbed the rickety wooden ladder up to the diving board and thought to himself, "What a funny idea you had to come up to this high perch!" Then, with a prayer to St. Teresa, who was to be patroness of the new chapel, he took off in a wild, unsteady swoop, kicking as he fell, to keep from landing on his back. He hit the water with a smash, and bobbed...
...hope . . . that the Russians are [not] sending a wrecking crew . . ." said John Foster Dulles, the treaty's chief architect. Next day in Moscow, the U.S. Embassy delivered a stiff little note to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Chief point: the San Francisco party "is not a conference to reopen negotiations on the terms of peace." Its proper business will be a final explanation of the treaty, then the signing...
While such unconventional friends as Augustus John and Walter Sickert painted and blustered their way to colorful international reputations, Steer retired more & more into the quiet life of a successful painter-teacher. Hating anything that smacked of "artiness," he wore stiff three-inch collars, dressed in Savile Row suits, ordered his life as rigidly as a banker's clerk. "Painting," he said, "is a job like any other, something one has to do between meals...