Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no agreement to be friends, nor could there be any trust between Communist Russia, which holds half of Germany captive, and the Bonn Republic, committed tightly to alliance with the West. The agreement merely said, in stiff, impersonal terms, that both sides, for the first time since the mutual treachery of 1939-41, will establish diplomatic relations and work towards "mutual understanding and cooperation ... in the interests of peace...
Tobacco smoke made ribbons beneath two huge, dazzling chandeliers, as Konrad Adenauer drew his steel-stiff frame close to the table...
...Kabinenroller, built by famed Airplane Designer Willy Messerschmitt, is the first of a new class of West German midget cars to go on sale in the U.S. The midgets, which make even the little Volkswagen look like a Cadillac by comparison, were born of German auto taxes, including a stiff purchase tax, an annual levy of about $3.42 per 100 cc. of engine displacement, plus compulsory liability insurance costing anywhere from $11.87 a year to $106.87, depending on horsepower. Thus, a Volkswagen's yearly tax and insurance cost is $76, about as much as the average West German earns...
...used gentle modulations of beige, blue and gold, which achieve the soft tones of tempera painting. Little effort was made to indicate perspective, but the turning movement of the figures, the flowing robes of Mary and her handmaiden and the swirling movement of the angel break away from the stiff formalism of earlier Byzantine...
...stiff back on stiff knees...