Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always in a plane that needed an overhaul 200 hours ago, with a pilot who hasn't had any sleep for days and keeps himself in shape with vin rouge." By March, when Mecklin moved to Hanoi's dreary Press Camp to cover the fall of Dienbienphu, stiff censorship...
Charles once or twice managed a clean straight right that caught the champion coming in and stopped him short. Then Rocky would shake the punch off and take up his stiff-legged charge. Stubbornly, Charles refused to go down. When the bell rang at the finish of the 15th round, he was still swinging. But the bumbling, ham-handed strongman from Brockton, Mass, was still the heavyweight cham pion of the world - a world in which good heavyweights are rare...
...most Italian paintings in the shade, and some flamboyant ceramic figures of working girls by light-fingered Leoncillo Leonardi outshone more pretentious sculptures. As best Italian painter, the jury picked Giuseppe Santomaso for his pleasantly decorative abstractions, which resemble swatches of colored silk and black thread in a stiff breeze. Prize for best Italian sculptor went to Pericle Fazzini (who makes a living by conservative church commissions), for some mildly sexy contortionists in wood and bronze...
...book said he was; sometimes he adds a quality of almost noble despair to the captain's sufferings. Van Johnson, who has hardened in recent years into a competent and calculating performer, brings off the square-headed Maryk surprisingly well. Fred MacMurray looks a little too dumb and stiff to be the fast-talking Keefer, but Jose Ferrer, so long as he is not required to do anything more than leer, is suitably aggressive as Barney Greenwald. E. G. Marshall has a fine stretch as the trial judge advocate...
...annual LIFE-P.G.A. National Golf Day, Ben Hogan carded a sensational 64 (eight under normal par at Baltusrol), but he complained of fatigue and various aches and pains. "My head," he said, "is so sore I have trouble combing my hair." Snead, for his part, grumbled about a "stiff neck that's cramping my swing." The course at Baltusrol seemed tailored for Sam Snead. Its long, sweeping fairways were an invitation to his power drives...