Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since the truce talks had long been deadlocked on the issue of a cease-fire line, he suggested last week that the matter be turned over to a subcommittee-one delegate from each side, with assistants. They could meet informally around a table-rather than facing across table in stiff two-sided array. There would be no stenographers' reports, no press briefings on the progress of the subcommittee, and a bare minimum of newsmen in Kaesong. There would be every reason to get down to business, and no further need for what Matt Ridgway called "parroting of elaborate...
...conference house, the allied newsmen could see the delegates huddled over maps on a small round tea table. Several times laughter was heard and the spokesmen were seen to be talking off-the-cuff, two or more sometimes talking at once, which was a refreshing change from the stiff silences and the set speeches of the plenary sessions. When the meeting was over, General Hodes allowed himself to be photographed with his arm around North Korea's complaisant...
...Noble's hair was white, his face lined, his arms stiff from old wounds. He drove occasionally to Dallas in an armored Ford to buy groceries and beer (he was afraid to drink anything stronger), but always in daylight and always with a rifle lying across his lap as he drove. Most of the time he stayed forted up in the stone house at his ranch. He had rigged floodlights to the eaves on every side and installed watchdogs (heavy-duty Dalmatians and tiny, yapping Chihuahuas). As an additional alarm system, he kept screaming peacocks and cackling guinea hens...
Before the paper plan can be transformed into an army, tremendous obstacles must be overcome. Even if remaining practical problems are settled (how to organize the new supranational authority, how to finance it, etc.), there will be stiff political opposition to the plan...
...worked hard for Lebanese independence and was something of a national hero, but he also faced stiff political opposition. The fascist-like Syrian National Party wanted Lebanon reunited with Syria to become part of an Arab superstate, Greater Syria. El Solh stood for Lebanon's complete independence. Two years ago the Syrian National Party broke out in open revolt. The revolt was suppressed and Party Leader Anton Saadeh, who fled to Syria, was extradited, tried and shot. His followers swore they would get revenge on el Sohl...