Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avowals of philosophical hostility. But when 17 Monarchists and Fascists helped him win a 132-93 vote of confidence in Italy's Senate, the whole nation rang with outrage. In the halls of Parliament, other Deputies mockingly greeted Christian Democrats with a stiff-armed Fascist salute. From the industrial north came frantic warnings that acceptance of Fascist support was sure to cost the Christian Democrats dear in next year's general election...
...civil-war-torn Madrid, I.T. & T.'s 13-story Telefonica headquarters was shelled 184 times by Franco gunners, while retreating Loyalists threatened to blow it up as a suspected spy center. Ramrod-stiff Colonel Behn himself arrived to save I.T. & T.'s besieged fortress, eventually sold the whole Spanish company to Franco for $88 million. In Western Europe, Nazi expropriations cut the 40% income that I.T. & T. got from the subsidiary International Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over...
...Mark VII; Warner) is a stiff salute from TV Star Jack (Dragnet) Webb to the Marine Corps drill instructor. A raucous prowl through the barracks and across the drill fields of Parris Island, the film is not based upon last year's tragic "death march" of a recruit platoon into the Carolina swamps. Made with the blessing and help of the Marine Corps, The D.I. might otherwise almost seem to be anti-Corps propaganda, su ruggedly, almost brutally does it portray the making of a young leatherneck...
...itself "most disappointed" and added that "a majority of the countries sought a unanimous agreement on the maintenance of a differential." The British privately replied that though a majority had indeed voted in favor of united action, an equal majority was opposed to the U.S. position of maintaining a stiff differential. Concluded Paris' Le Monde: "Britain has played the part of a battering ram, and her partners are going to take advantage of the breach that has been opened...
...paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that can make the difference between retirement to Miami or to a county relief check. But to keep the union out, he must pay a stiff percentage of his profits to an underworking (Richard Boone) whose strongboys keep the little man in line and the union organizers on the anxious seat...