Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly, there is no call for wild optimism. French equipment sadly needs modernization and overhaul. The French would put up a stiff fight against invasion, but there is no doubt that if Stalin threw caution to the winds and ordered Mao to march south with everything he had, the French would be swept into...
Wilson got little sympathy from Congress. "I have been criticized as having been too stiff and formal in my relations with Congress," said Wilson. "I have been stiff and formal. That is the way I think a program like this should be run." The President thanked him for his good work in the past, but did not urge him to stay...
...morning last week, a long silver DC-6 with the blue and white markings of United Air Lines settled on the runway of the Air Force's Fairfield-Suisun Base, 50 miles north of San Francisco. Out came the passengers-18 women, 24 children, 4 soldiers-muscles stiff from the long 7,000-mile ride from Tokyo. In the airfield's noisy, sprawling, glass-walled building, the children found a haven under the protection of Operation Recess; volunteer nurses popped the smallest in cribs, kept the bigger ones busy with comic books. A few of the women belonged...
Ever since President Truman restricted housing credit a month ago, the building industry has been in a sweat. The Government was going to halt all house construction, so the rumors went, or at least impose such stiff controls that only Government-financed housing would be able to get materials. In Washington last week moonfaced Thomas P. Coogan, president of the National Association of Home Builders (17,000 members), and his executive committee sat down with federal officials to find out just how hard housing would be hit by rearmament...
...delivery than any one of a score of U.S., British and other competing firms. Rosenthal china and Leica cameras are once again in the world's markets. A British toy manufacturer complained that the Germans are undercutting his prices on teddy bears and white rabbits in Cyprus, offering stiff competition in Canada and Africa...