Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elsewhere, at $11 to $17 a ton. She has similar trouble with salt, a staple of her chemical industry, on which the shipping costs alone are $12 a ton. Some of her prewar export markets are closed to her by the Bamboo Curtain, others by old hatreds, others by stiff free-world competition. Japanese silk, which used to be her biggest dollar earner, has been knocked out by modern synthetic fibers...
Historians who believe that great decisions are the result of historical necessity rather than of the acts of individuals will find in Monelli's account of Mussolini's life a stiff argument to the contrary. Personal vanity, swollen to monstrous proportions, made Italy Germany's ally in World War II. Mussolini detested Hitler, but, as he said frankly: "It's too late to drop him. I don't want them to say abroad that Italy's cowardly." Of all Mussolini's millions of spouted words, none has a greater ring of sincerity than...
...giving its approval, British Columbia laid down some stiff conditions for Lindsley. He must put up a $2,500,000 bond, which will be forfeited if he fails to meet any one of the annual development targets between 1955 and 1962. Furthermore. in the case of such failure. Lindsley will lose his license to the water rights, as well as the full value of work done up to that time. Unlike an earlier deal worked out with Aluminum Co. of Canada for its Kitimat project (see THE HEMISPHERE), Lindsley's agreement calls for no tax concessions, no special rates...
...year ago Banker Burgess, a fiscal conservative, was hotly criticized for quarterbacking a 30-year bond issue designed to curb inflation by soaking up long-term investment capital and stiffening interest rates. When it appeared that the medicine might be too stiff, he promptly eased up on his tight-money policies. Nevertheless, Burgess still favors debt-lengthening, has managed to boost average public bond maturities by six months and hopes to stretch them further...
...chorus, one of the world's finest, performed brilliantly. But the chief attraction, as usual, was the staging. Wieland sees Tannhäuser as a harried misfit in a world of rigid conventions. Dressed in a black cloak (while the other minstrels wear brown), he moves among stiff, almost mechanized people of the court. Preparing for the crucial song contest in the second act-usually staged with casual confusion-uniformly dressed men and women march into the hall in stiff military style. But the orgiastic Venusberg scene, set in flowing concentric circles of light, is heavily sensual: the ballet...