Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...county agent's extremely valuable services to the farmer. If we are going on the theory that a service department of the Government should be operated for profit, then the farmer should be handsomely billed for the county agent's services, and a good stiff admission charge should be placed on all national parks and forests...
Although members of both parties support the longer term, the present Republican-sponsored proposal is likely to face stiff opposition from the Democratic majority in the House. The bill provides that the first four year term should begin in 1958, an off-year; Democrats claim that the gubernatorial and presidential races should be simultaneous to ensure the largest possible turn-out at the polls. The Republicans, on the other hand, support the off-year proposal because they claim that vital state issues have to take a back seat during presidential campaigns...
...Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while he hit all of Sarastro's low notes, failed to be really moving. Not one of the slim, attractive Americans could match the musical excitement so often provided by the Met's derided, plumpish divas...
...girl when they retire each night to their little hut. After absorbing these whoppers, the audience is prepared for one more anticlimax: Taylor tracks the fleeing Granger and Debra to a hillside cave, but instead of shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night. By morning he is frozen stiff as an ice cube-even though the weather is apparently so mild that it does not raise a single goose bump on Debra's bare and dimpled knees as she rides off into the dawn in Granger's arms...
...operators of Italian coffee machines, who have to make several strong turning movements of the wrist for each demitasse of black brew. They get inflammation and tightening of the tendon sheaths. The cure is hydrocortizone. To avoid relapses, the coffeemaker must learn to hold his wrist straight and stiff like a barmaid...