Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Cambridge, the varsity faces a stiff stretch in the Briggs Cage and the probability that the season opener against Syracuse (scheduled for Saturday) will be postponed...
...University of Baltimore jumped ahead of a varsity, stiff and swollen after a day's rest, and kept the lead although outscored by the Crimson in the second half...
While they kept a stiff upper lip in public. Stevenson's leaders in California were frightened, baffled and discouraged. Said one: "We'll have to revamp our entire campaign in California. And Adlai will have to make some changes. He can't play it from the balcony any more; he's got to get down with the people. When he came out to California we gave him a complete briefing. He didn't do a single damned thing we suggested-like spending less time polishing up those speeches and more time meeting people. Another thing...
...nets will be last year's reserve goalie, Mark Rhine. Although Rhine will do all the tending on the southern swing, he will have stiff competition for the permanent spot when several promising sophomores join the squad...
...much of the excitement is dissipated in long intervals on the ground. The characters then indulge in some vague philosophising, ("Perhaps nothing happens unless somebody dreams it first.") while a phonograph blares out with heavy-handed irony, "Everything in the dream was lovely." A somewhat stiff performance by Michael Redgrave as the officer does not help much either. He is overshadowed by Alexander Knox, who performs convincingly as one of the passengers, a civil servant caught between intellectual disbelief and emotional fear of superstition. In the end, the picture leaves the impression that it is laboring hard to appear profound...