Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge and the broken crew oars, one finds a musty room, littered with empty cardboard boxes. There under shaded lamps stand the pool tables. One is covered with cartons, but the other seven are ready for use. The cues wait covered with dust in the racks, and red stiff-backed stools line the far wall...
...into wartime Germany to locate the factory where Hitler was manufacturing a bacteria bomb. There were squads of brutal and booted Gestapo, a beautiful barmaid (Was she enemy or friend?), a German professor who recoiled from making weapons for mass destruction. Alda had plenty of opportunity to make a stiff upper lip and to say things like "I'm only doing a job that has to be done...
...physic was a stiff dose of merger. The bailey Plan was to lump together as many of the book and speciment collections as possible, selling off duplicates. It also looked to centralization, to splitting the field into two Areas, each with a chairman, presided over by a Biological Council. The Arboretum fell on both sides of the dividing line: the living collections were to go into one Area, and all research dependent on preserved matter would go into the other. The herbarium and library were slated to be moved to Cambridge...
Herr Oskar Altmann, a stiff-backed Prussian of the old school, and his wife were prim and proper Berliners who suffered privation in silence but protested peevishly against such innovations as lipstick and slacks, which they thought "incorrect." Elder son Kurt was dead or a prisoner in Russia; Fritz, the younger boy, was a good-for-nothing young Nazi who had once betrayed his parents to the Gestapo and who soon would betray them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped...
...Senate consenting only afterward, would make treaties and direct foreign policy. At book's end, the hero reluctantly decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...