Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message asked for a four-year extension of the regular draft, a two-year extension of the doctors' draft, an active reserve program with stiff penalties for absentees, active basic training for National Guardsmen and, most controversial of all, six months' basic training-at $30 a month and without veterans' benefits -for teen-agers who would avoid the draft and accept a 9½-year obligation of service in the reserve...
...CONCRETE MUSIC, a recent development involving recorded natural sounds that are edited and (usually) electronically transformed into (usually) hair-raising compositions, gets a stiff nod. Grove's admits that it "does represent a new means of expression." ¶ The diminished seventh, a foreboding chord much abused by 19th century composers and some 20th century organists, gets its comeuppance. Because it has four notes belonging to widely distant keys, Editor Blom recalls a reference to it as a railway station, from which it is "possible to get to any destination in the shortest possible time . . ." He adds, "It became stale...
...selling was hard, for in 1954 consumers gave businessmen a taste of what competitive coexistence can mean at home. Department stores, once a major market place for appliances, saw some 35% of that business go to discount houses as bargain hunters stalked the land. Competition was so stiff in the auto industry that sales increases were racked up only by G.M. and Ford. Chrysler's cut of the market slumped from 20% to 13%, and mergers cut the number of auto companies from eight to six. But by year's end, Chrysler was scoring a comeback with...
...Agriculture Department, it turned out, did not want him in its service in Tokyo. Last week the department explained in a stiff public statement attacking Ladejinsky for two reasons: 1) he had never "been close to American farming operations and problems," and 2) he was a security risk...
...young ladies made their curtsies-some deep and dramatic, others stiff and jerky, others balky and bored...