Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What I find alarming in the present state of affairs is the failure of the British economic machine to, adapt itself to the new circumstances of the postwar world . . . The salient fact is that those efforts [we have made] have not been enough . . . Our system is stiff and rigid and unadaptable. We all know what happened to the brontosaurus because he could not adapt himself to new circumstances, and the fear that I have about the British economy is that it is getting a little into the state of the brontosaurus...
Neither of these teams has provided a real test and Harvard is not likely to run into stiff opposition until late this month. BU (next Wednesday) as comparatively weak and Brown's showing against Army would give Harvard the edge at West Point next Saturday. After that come Columbia, Princeton, and Yale. The Crimson has a good chance of going to Princeton undefeated...
...election over, Paasikivi sent off a stiff answer to the month-old Russian note accusing Finland of harboring Soviet "war criminals." Finland, said Paasikivi, "is entitled to reject categorically the assertions that Finnish authorities have supplied war criminals with faked documents...
...needed by the play, the play just the airiness needed by the production. Adapter Valency's version is good and George S. Kaufman's staging far from bad. Leueen MacGrath is charming as the girl, but too monotonous; Wesley Addy is engaging as the suitor, but too stiff. Only Francis Poulenc's music catches the proper note of magic...
...these two men formed the stiff-necked, tough-spirited leadership of the most fiery social movement in 19th Century U.S.-abolitionism. Their collaboration and eventual split is the subject of Ralph Korngold's Two Friends of Man, a galloping history that has much of the excitement and frenzy of its subject...