Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fans had come to the Harvard-Cornell baseball game at Soldiers Field Friday they would have been frozen stiff. Not a soul was in the stands, however, as the Crimson scored an impressive 11-1 victory in an abbreviated seven-inning game...
...usual in the Heps, Harvard will have to rely on its powerful field aggregation to build up an early lead. Aggrey Awori should win the broad jump, but Chris Ohiri will face stiff competition from Yale's Jim Axtell, who has jumped 24 ft., 1 in., for second place. Ohiri is almost certain to win the triple jump, while Chum Azikiwe and Hoble Armstrong could perhaps add second and third place to the Crimson scoring...
...year, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; unemployment averages 60%, illiteracy runs 90%, and life expectancy is only 32.6 years. When he campaigned for the presidency in 1957, Duvalier, a onetime backwoods physician who ministered to the poor, promised to change everything. Instead, he slapped on stiff new taxes and tolls, siphoned off graft to his cronies. To hold down the opposition, Duvalier set up a plainclothes gestapo of 5,000 men, called Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen, and in 1960 added a militia that now numbers 13,000. The two operate in chilling tandem, handling everything from shakedowns...
...wore on, slides of naked women were projected, suggesting that pornography has its place among the neo-Palladian splendors of the alabaster city. Waiters spilled bits of plastic from trays onto the audience. A woman came on wearing a shredded American flag on her head; her spine was as stiff as a flagpole. It had to be, since it was part of the monument to the victory at Iwo Jima, and three soldiers held her at the appropriate tilt. A 14-year-old boy in a Lincolnesque beard entered the room, was shown to his seat, and sat there waiting...
Seventy-five percent of all German boys and girls leave school at 14. but nearly all the boys and about half the girls become apprentices. Apprenticeships are offered in 124 trades, ranging from hog raising to organ building, and generally take three years to complete. After passing stiff exams, an apprentice becomes a journeyman -a stage that in medieval times meant that he journeyed about the country to find jobs. Only carpentry retains that ancient practice; on Germany's back roads, the wandering carpenter, dressed in traditional bell-bottom trousers and a widebrimmed felt hat, can still be seen...