Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physicists of those days believed that the universe was built foursquare on Newton's Laws of Motion. Their laboratories were stiff with reassuring certainties. Matter was matter, they stated dogmatically. It could, of course, be used in combustion to release energy, but matter itself could not be turned into energy. The chemical elements were indestructible; no atom of one could be transmuted into an atom of another. The scientists were confident that if they applied such well-known rules with greater & greater precision, they could eventually explain everything in the universe. Few of them suspected, and fewer dared suggest...
...girls that longtime Cinematinee Idol Clark Gable has been dating recently received the news of his elopement with Lady Stanley in a variety of ways-from bitterness to stiff upper lip. Said Virginia Grey, who is sometimes called Hollywood's "most gorgeous blonde": "Oh my God! Is it true?" Pretty Elaine White, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer secretary: "Well, I sure wasted a Christmas card, I guess." Producer Joan Harrison: "We were just good friends." Long before the fact, Paulette Goddard was quoted as saying: "That's that. So long, sugar." In San Francisco, as the Gables started...