Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...population growth so steep that there can be no hope of abating the general misery for years. Though he merged Syria in his United Arab Republic with glowing promises of prosperity in Arab brotherhood, the first consequences for Syrians were a decline in the value of their money, a stiff boost in tariffs, and destruction of their remaining political freedoms...
FRANCE The Providential Man Out of the kaleidoscopic confusion of events in France emerged two arresting facts. In his first seven days in power Charles de Gaulle had managed to give his country firmer government than it had known in the preceding seven years. And in the process the stiff old soldier from Colombey-les-Deux Eglises had displayed precisely the two qualities his critics insisted that he lacked-a talent for conciliation and a mastery of political maneuver worthy of a Talleyrand or a Tammany sachem...
Colonel DeVere Armstrong, USA, professor of Military Science, rotated into his turn as master of ceremonies this year and welcomed the audience to the moist and heavy-aired Sever Quadrangle theatre after leading the speakers' party through two tight, stiff rows of cadets and midshipmen...
...souffle secrets with the New York Times: "Egg whites are beaten by hand with a wire whisk or not at all. You beat and beat. Of course, you may drop dead in the end, but no matter. I don't understand why American cookbooks state 'beat until stiff but still moist.' That's nonsense. We beat the daylights out of them and turn out the finest souffles you've ever tasted...
...eleven are going to French class after school, in the public library; half a dozen boys aged six to eight are getting a first look at science in a floating class that rotates from home to home on Saturday mornings; ten boys aged nine to eleven are digesting a stiff science course in a day-nursery classroom...