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Word: stiff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson is a slight favorite in tonight Big Three content and would be a much stronger bet had not Captain Myles Huntington and Shorty Minot been named in last Saturday's 4 to 1 defeat at Yale. Huntington will play, but with a stiff charley house leg and Minot will probably is out entirely with a wrenched knee. Cob DiBlasio should see action, but he will be nursing a bruised eye suffered in the BP game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weakened Crimson Sextet Favored To Take Tigers at Arena Tonight | 3/7/1950 | See Source »

...makes the most of it. Wearing his hauteur like a mask and registering most emotions with his eyebrows, Coward almost qualifies for a Broadway revue sketch parodying Noel Coward. In more ways than one, the victim of the piece is Celia Johnson, a fine actress doomed to wear a stiff upper lip through the whole ugly mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 27, 1950 | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Department-store sales for the week ended Jan. 28 also edged above the same 1949 period. And there seemed to be few signs of a seasonal drop in auto demand. Nevertheless, some automakers thought they saw stiff competition ahead, and got ready for it. Hudson Motor Car Co. cut prices on some of its higher-priced models, and Studebaker made a slash of from $82 to $135 on its 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Parade | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...last week, except for a stiff neck, Alina had almost completely recovered. Physicians attributed her deathlike state to a severe attack of malaria. Her awakening, they guessed, might have been caused by the noise and motion of the funeral. For the stiff neck they had an even simpler explanation: her coffin had been too short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: La Revenante | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Foolish Heart (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is the kind of movie that gives women a good cry and men a bad time. Strangely enough, it comes from a short story by J. D. Salinger in The New Yorker, literary stronghold of the stiff upper lip. Under the treatment of scripter-brothers Julius and Philip Epstein, the screenplay turns on all the emotional faucets of a Woman's Home Companion serial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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