Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They are clannish to the point of absurdity, persist in thinking that they are the upper crust of East Bank long after most East Bankers have begun to laugh behind their stiff, straight backs...
...Written as a country youth's narrative, the story sketches a minister's efforts to bring a pair of town dissolutes to church. Cowley manages to weave a good many colloquialisms into the piece and to catch the naivete of his narrator's impressions, but frequently his sentences are stiff and uneven...
When Realtor Charles E. Slusser was mayor of Akron (1944-53), he led a fight to replace city slums with public housing and met with stiff resistance from some of his fellow real-estate men who opposed Government housing as interference with private business. This week Republican Slusser made a speech before the Akron Real Estate Board as Eisenhower Administration spokesman and its Public Housing Commissioner...
...Franciscans were charmed by Jordá from his first guest appearance last season. They liked the vitality of his gestures, the warmth of tone he drew from the orchestra. Their hearts went out to him when his stiff collar popped open in a fiery Spanish number. Finally, his fondness for the lyrical touch and his romantic musical taste-he has revived rarely played Schumann and Dvorak symphonies-made him seem a logical successor to Monteux, who for 17 years had molded San Franciscan taste...
...never set on the British Empire, old India hands toted the white man's burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an old India hand has little to tote but a stiff upper lip. Not so John Masters, exbrigadier of the Indian army. Bounced out of India by Indian independence, he has bounced right back again, figuratively, at least, with a self-imposed burden of Kiplingesque dimensions. The burden: to write 35 novels about the land of purdah and pukka sahibs, covering...