Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over $100 a month. He was a man who was always complaining about radicals among schoolteachers. We asked him what the hell he expected. And he came around." So did the voters, who pushed through three pay raises within eight years. Whitaker & Baxter charged the California Teachers Association a stiff $772,000 for the campaigns, but succeeded in raising the payroll from $77 million to $400 million a year...
...last day in training camp, he nodded toward two of his sparring partners-aggressive, Olson-type plodders-and asked his managers, "We won't be needing these gorillas any more, will we?" "No," said the managers. So, one after the other, headguards and all, Sugar knocked the men stiff...
...works produced by this process were generally simple in character, suited to the medieval tastes of the artists. Temptation against Faith, an anonymous woodcut done in 1475 illustrates the typically stiff and expressionless style. A later, 16th century work, the Great Tournament, is wondrously lacking in perspective. The figures in the foreground display neither emphasis nor discrimination...
...week, he dons sneakers, a grey sweat suit and a Mother Hubbard bonnet that ties under his chin. With a black book in hand, he trots briskly around his driveway or the roof of his office building on lower Fifth Avenue as he memorizes new words. "After a stiff workout," says a friend, "Lou's breath comes in polysyllables...
...works produced by this process were generally simple in character, suited to the medieval tastes of the artists. Temptation against Faith, an anonymous woodcut done in 1475 illustrates the typically stiff and expressionless style...