Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech about a $170 million project to divert water from the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork rivers on the western slopes of the Rockies into the Arkansas River valley on the east, was Colorado's Democratic Senator John Carroll. A loyal Kennedy backer in Congress, Carroll faces a stiff re-election challenge this year from Republican Representative Peter Dominick. It was Carroll who introduced Kennedy to some 8,000 cheering spectators in the Pueblo High School Stadium...
There were not enough takers. The powerful German banks also cut off his credit; now other companies may be able to pick up the pieces of his empire at bargain prices. "My creditors," cried Schlieker, "stiff-armed me and let me starve." In his rise to the top, Schlieker had done little to endear himself to bankers or fellow industrialists. He operated as a lone wolf, got rich by successively working for the Nazis as a steel expert, selling millions of dollars worth of steel to Communist East Germany, and swapping German steel for U.S. coal during the Korean...
...Cape Cod, he went out to Washington National Airport to welcome Ecuador's President Carlos Julio Arosemena. In two days of receptions, lunches and talks, the two Presidents discussed U.S.-Ecuadorian problems, but Kennedy often turned the conversation to the crisis in Peru, where Washington's stiff reaction to a military takeover was now embarrassed by the way the Peruvian brass seemed to be settling into authority without much public disorder...
...riding the all-night bus, as Correspondent Ben Gate did, between one-night stands of the Stan Ken ton band (see Music) and getting into the stiff poker game and discovering that whatever glamour there is in that kind of jazz life, it's all out front...
Knowing that they cannot afford to fail, the conferees will probably reach an agreement. They have been helped by a decision of the Common Market nations, which originally planned to admit coffee from France's former African colonies virtually free of tariff while slapping stiff duties on Latin American coffee. Now the Common Marketeers have agreed to slash their general coffee tariff by 40%, giving Latin American nations a chance to compete too, so that these hard-pressed nations will not require so much foreign aid. Explains Françoise Gavoty, France's delegate to the coffee conference...