Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held a press conference and told what had happened in the mansion at Kaesong. In the conference room, the U.N. men found a table with five chairs on each side. There were no pictures of Stalin, no poster propaganda of any kind. The atmosphere was courteous but unbending and stiff; the Communist delegation was composed of a North Korean colonel named Chang Chun San and two lieutenant colonels, one North Korean, one Chinese (plus two interpreters). Chang, a trim man in a green, Russian-style uniform with red shoulder boards, did all the talking for his side...
...rescuing Red China from the brink of disaster-and in such a way that the Reds are able to present the armistice negotiations to their own people and to much of Asia as a great moral and military success for Red China and a stiff defeat...
...machine competition from abroad has been stiff: one machine can turn out cigars 25 times as fast as a practiced torcedor. Cuba's cigar output has been falling, and cigar makers have been out of work. Last year the hard-pressed Cuban Cigar Makers Union, in an attempt to revive the industry's prosperity, agreed to the introduction of machines...
...Apparently not yet accustomed to U.S. editors who cut superfluous words, he complained that his famous Korean cease-fire speech had been censored in part. Said the nettled delegate: "American newsreels and television cut out much of the things I said." With a little coaxing, however, Malik managed a stiff smile and a few careful words: "Best luck and wishes to those in this country who fight for peace and friendship between our countries...
...only two U.S. embassy officials were admitted to the courtroom. Oatis met his defense lawyer for the first time when the trial magistrate pointed to a stranger standing near by and told Oatis, "This is Dr. Bartos." Then, like a ventriloquist's dummy, Oatis went through all the stiff motions of "confessing" to espionage. As in other propaganda trials, the low, hesitant words were broadcast. Oatis admitted taking orders from New York and London A.P. officials to find out what happened to deposed Czech Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis and otherwise trying to get information that the Czech government...