Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good job opportunities for June college graduates will be scarce, a study by the U. S. Department of Labor reports. In certain technical fields such as Chemistry, prospects are good for men with postgraduate work, but in these fields men with only a bachelor's degree will run into stiff competition, the survey finds...
...surprise win in the number two singles was all that M.I.T.'s tennis team could salvage out of nine matches here yesterday afternoon. The Engineers put up unexpectedly stiff resistance, though, extending four of the singles matches to three sets...
...trainees spend weeks working in plants at every job involved in bottling, paste up posters, ride with salesmen on trucks delivering and selling Coca-Cola. They spend two weeks at Coca-Cola's central Production School in Atlanta, a minor university. At the end they are given a stiff three-hour exam (sample question: Describe briefly the process followed in cleaning and sterilizing syrup lines and syrup tanks...
...paper a masseuse stepped into the room. Reader Sulzberger, having laid his two favorite pages on the pillow, stole glances at them as she pummeled his back. When the rite was over, he sat up, and as the masseuse worked at the fingers of his right hand, stiff from a palm affliction, Sulzberger picked up the detached Page One of the Times in his left. Rapidly, his marble-bright blue eyes took in every story. When the masseuse moved on to his left hand, Sulzberger reached for the editorial page with his right...
...about Serving Maid Pamela Andrews' trials at the hands of her lecherous master, and marveled at the way she held him at bay with moral philosophy or (since he was prepared to go to any lengths of force) by dropping off into swoons that rendered her cold and stiff. Everyone sighed with relief when the repulsed rapist broke down and proposed marriage to Pamela-who of course accepted him, since she was much too virtuous ever to nurse a grudge...