Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formal, Frugal. The President of Argentina is stiff, shy, occasionally gloomy, gravely formal, sparing of speech. He is a professional soldier, a graduate of Argentina's Prussian-style Military Academy. He is not one of the generals Perón used to corrupt with favors, and he lives frugally and simply. "I don't like social affairs," says Aramburu. "Never did. I am one of those men who do not fear to be alone." His only hobby, dropped for now, is attending auctions of household goods with his wife Sara-and they have never had enough money...
WHATEVER happened to the big brassy nightclub? It is fast disappearing, together with its chorus lines, revolving lights, oppressive waiters and stiff cover charges. Taking its place, for better or for worse, is a new phenomenon of American night life. See Music, Rise of the Music Room...
Historic Vistas. The Vatican has a long memory. It remembers coexistence and martyrdom, and the infinite shadings between, in times, of Moslem invaders, stiff-necked emperors. Reformation heretics. Enlightenment atheists and revolutionaries without end. So long is the Vatican's memory that an insider can say casually of Wyszynski: "This man is the only free, active, dynamic cardinal in Russian-held territory since the Czars in 1430 ousted Cardinal Isidor, whom Pope Aurelius IV had sent to Moscow...
...Stiff Questions. One diagnosis of NIMH's current troubles is that Clinical Director Cohen is highly permissive for a father-figure and tries to give subordinates a free hand in working with patients. But even this permissiveness ran out when Psychiatrist Scher made ambitious demands for guarantees of space, facilities and money to continue his experiment in treating schizophrenics "tough." Cohen ordered the six patients in Scher's special project transferred to a state hospital, provoking angry protest from their families. Last week a congressional subcommittee" on appropriations handed Director Felix a set of stiff questions...
...heroine says, "Perry (Geoff's younger brother), I've tried so hard not to; oh, but I do love you." The various generals, officers, and English ambassadors fill their alloted time with lots of solid "Good shows," "old lads," and "quite so's," maintaining all the while unbelievably stiff upper lips...