Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britons' stiff upper lips have had practice in getting stiffer as they watched their national championships go to foreigners in such made-in-England sports as cricket, boxing, golf and tennis (see below). Heretofore, they have consoled themselves with the knowledge that at least their soccer players were still top hole. But even the soccer picture was turning black...
Collectivization of agriculture has been pushed against stiff opposition from the peasants. Usual Communist procedure is to start an agricultural cooperative among the poorer peasants of a village. The others are denounced as "village rich," badgered by inspectors, have their machinery confiscated until they submit...
...student owned his own horse, was required to feed and curry him every morning before breakfast. Riding was the school's main sport, with students taking long treks through the mountains, and competing in the rough-riding gymkhanas. For dinner, students changed riding jeans and blue shirts for stiff white collars and blue suits, were waited on by Chinese servants...
...Southern California countryside became more heavily populated, and the cost of living rose, the horse requirement was dropped. The sprawling stables were gradually converted into laboratories and workshops, stiff white collars disappeared and the Chinese servants were replaced by students, who took turns waiting on tables...
...rubber growers got the point. In two consecutive days last week, rubber futures dropped the full legal limit of 2? a Ib. on the New York Commodity Exchange. Indonesian growers scurried to unload, spurred on by the added news that their government plans to slap a stiff 5?-a-lb. tax on rubber exports after July i. At week's end, New York rubber futures had leveled off at 28.9?. With this year's natural rubber production now estimated at 140,000 tons in excess of world consumption, most traders thought that even lower prices were ahead...