Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 100 pages long, handed to Congress late one afternoon with a request that House and Senate rush it right through. Without discussion or debate, the Peronista steam roller obliged. The law increased tax rates on personal incomes, excess profits, capital gains, inheritances, gifts and sales, and slapped on stiff hikes in excise and customs duties. At the same time, the government removed price controls from many commodities...
...reason for the stiff bidding was that this year's crop is expected to be 37% smaller than last year's, and the smallest on record. On top of that, the armed services, which bought up some 30% of the brooms manufactured in World War II, were back in the market again. For housewives this meant about 40% fewer corn brooms next year and 10-to-30% higher prices...
...Hart did not expect the American Medical Association, which regards such views as heresy, to accept his suggestion without a stiff fight. There was sure to be bitter opposition from those hospitals which now depend on interns for virtually free labor...
Lower and wider (62 in. inside) than last year's models, the new Packards have a luggage compartment almost twice as big, and an automatic shift (which is optional or standard depending on the model). With nine models in three different price ranges, Packard hopes to put up stiff competition against everything from the Pontiac class to the Lincoln and Cadillac. To do so, Packard has its work cut out. Last week, when it had hoped to get its new models off to a fast start, the company was shut down: the United Autoworkers-C.I.O. had struck...
...against the sickly remnants-the gentlemen who drink morning toddies while the floors beneath them are visibly rotting away. At the same time, he desperately hates the hard-souled, faceless Snopeses, whose only purpose in life is to accumulate money. In the present-day South, Faulkner admires only such stiff-back Negroes as Lucas Beauchamp of Intruder in the Dust (TIME, Oct. 4, 1948), who endure humiliation with patience and dignity, and those poor whites who cling to their land, their families and their old morality...