Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME's article "Battle of the Socialites" [March 9] states that the term Grundyism was inspired by Pennsylvania's stiff-collared conservative and onetime G.O.P. State Chairman Joe Grundy. I believe, however, that the term was originally inspired by the prudish and narrowminded Mrs. Grundy, a person referred to in Thomas Morton's comedy Speed the Plough...
...more like a technique class than a dance, with each dancer exercising in his own private sphere, hardly seeing, not caring, what his partners were doing. Cunningham's technique of "choreography by chance" picked the wrong random combination of numbers this time and came up with a series of stiff, unrelated movements that took rather more muscle than grace...
...pared the duty on foreign cars by about $21.50, while Europe lowered its tariffs against U.S. autos by $126. Though President Kennedy singled out this deal to crow about, the reduction will scarcely help Detroit because the Common Market's new auto tariff against outsiders is still a stiff 22% O. the U.S.'s 6½%), and exorbitant excise and horsepower taxes increase the European price of Ford's Comet to about $5,000. The U.S. also agreed to tariff easing on certain machinery, electrical gear, steel products, glassware and diamonds. Europe countered with lighter duties...
Yesterday Niebuhr called the stiff charge against McDew and Zeller "the most outrageous thing I've ever heard...
...cannot commit funds absolutely before one has them, and that it is silly to connect every political event in Latin America with the success of the Alliance. The trouble is that expropriation of the I.T. & T. in a Brazilian province, or the fact that Cuba has instituted a stiff rationing program, can seriously affect the Alliance, if American opinion allows them...