Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hand-Ride for Fisherman. Now and then, after Brook's therapy, horses have run better. Even Landau went well for a while on English tracks last summer. But at Laurel last week, the neurotic colt faced a soggy track and stiff competition from six other fine thoroughbreds...
Throughout most of the picture, the upper lip is held so stiff that one often wishes the characterization behind it had more teeth. But it is a good, workmanlike film, nevertheless, and Actor Kelly attains that rare thing in Hollywood movies about Americans in England: he indicates his Americanism without lapsing into an inane grin...
...last week smiling and marveling at the sights of New York harbor. At week's end, after a schedule of shopping, sightseeing and partying that would have staggered women half her age, she was still going strong. Everywhere she appeared, she managed to break through the stiff cordon of protocol with her smile, her poise, or her dazzling jewels. On every hand the comment was the same: "Isn't she lovely...
...State Department officials called the Russian story as fantastic as the wildest of space-cadet comic strips. What really happened, they said, was that Mrs. Sommerlatte and a friend, the wife of Assistant Naval Attaché Houston Stiff, were out on a quiet, picture-taking stroll when they were pulled into a building by two Soviet secret agents and detained for more than an hour. The Soviet version of the incident, said U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen, "is in such flagrant contradiction of the facts that I am sure the Soviet Foreign Ministry will wish to change it." Even after...
...board of directors are optimistic about their chances, hope to break even with a daily circulation of 25,000. On advertising they already have a big advantage: many businessmen in Jackson are stockholders of the State Times and have signed up for ads. The State Times still faces stiff and rough competition from the Hedermans, who have thawed out their own news coverage. Says Chairman Milner: "We can't afford to fail. The Hedermans would run us out of town...