Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ladies were examined from all angles-some acute. Gynecologist Edmund Overstreet speculated on the possibility that the menopause might be an ailment rather than a natural process (no non-human primate seems to experience it). Philosopher Peter Koestenbaum prescribed a stiff course of existentialism for such female problems as sexual incompatibility...
Literate Civil Service. All in Paris and all state-run, the three schools last year admitted a mere 458 students. Getting in requires far more than passing bachot exams for university entrance. From the 50% of candidates who pass those stiff exams, a handful of the very brightest stay on at a lycée (secondary school) for two more years of study before tackling the even stiffer exams for grandes écoles...
...Stiff Settlement. The board's final terms tempted many shippers to leave it, and the key word in their acceptance was "reluctance." Not only was the settlement stiff; it was more than double the figure prescribed under the Administration's price-wage "guidelines" that set the tone for last year's noninflationary settlements in the steel and aluminum industries. Under these guideposts, any industry's wages and fringe benefits should rise only as fast as industry's overall productivity...
...credit hours they deserve. Classes are small; electives are few. Science and humanities get equal stress in such ways as a senior seminar that attempts a whole vision of learning. Under a new plan, students can sail through in three years or plod through in five. They still face stiff junior-year qualifying exams, must write senior theses. Recent titles range from "Metal Ion Inhibition of Ribonuclease" to "Gerard Manley Hopkins: Instressing His Inscape...
...Paso, Texas, there was stiff competition between households and neighborhoods for the most striking luminario display (a Mexican custom in which lighted candles are set in sand-weighted paper bags), and in San Antonio rehearsals were on for the traditional Los Pastores miracle play. The Dallas Civic Opera, Chorus, and Symphony Orchestra got ready for their massive performance of the entire Messiah. And everywhere, newspapers were taking advantage of their readers' spirit of the season, whether springing from generosity or guilt, to help their pet charities...