Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediate sight-it is only necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke and the crowd had cleared for an instant, there they stood, Mikoyan very stiff, Gromyko looking amazingly like Dick Nixon, bemedaled Malinovsky, a benign, kewpie-doll Bulganin and then, as two shoulders parted, on a level with them was the pink, pleasant, unsmiling face of Nikita Khrushchev...
...trunk lines will ask for increases on all but about 30 of 256 commodities. Coal will probably get hit, and the Western roads want higher rates for their eastward shipments of farm goods, lumber and lumber products. Even the 25 Class I Southern roads, which have traditionally rebelled against stiff rate increases for fear of losing business to trucks, plan to join in the request, even though they may not seek boosts for pulpwood, tobacco, alcoholic drinks. Finally, all the rails are expected to petition for higher charges for loading and unloading export-import freight, and for permission to charge...
Eliot never penetrated beyond Jonathan Edwards' 20-yard line, as the Yale team made a second period touchdown stand up all the way for a 7-0 triumph. The Elephants stayed on the ground for virtually the entire game, but met a stiff Edwards forward wall...
Divinity manager Peers Brewer claimed that the Elis will give the squad stiff competition. "I think it can be safely said that Yale is using ancient Greek mystery rites to win the favor of the gods, whereas we tend to stick to a more stable formula," he said...
...memory of O'Neill is that he was good-looking, very nervous, extremely impatient with 47, and anxious to get down to live in Greenwich Village... The first [of two plays O'Neill wrote during the year] was inconspicuous, and the latter was labored and stiff. His worst fault, I think, was an ineptitude at dialogue, except when the speakers were raving drunk or profane...