Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennsylvania's Republican Old Guard, inheritors of the right-leaning tradition of onetime State Chairman Joe Grundy (the inspiration for Grundyism, a byword for stiff-collared conservatism), started off by backing a political nobody: Superior Court Judge Robert E. Woodside, 57. Then U.S. Senator Hugh Scott jumped into the race, ready to step aside if Scranton ran, and touched off a major melee by quoting Gettysburg Republican Dwight Eisenhower as saying he would "rather see a primary fight than be forced to take a miserable ticket"-a thinly disguised blast at Woodside. The Old Guard reluctantly retired Woodside, brought...
...competition wasn't stiff enough to begin with, captain Roger Wiegand, Hampy Howell, and Paul Sullivan, last year's top three men, were stricken with mono. There went Barnaby's hopes of cracking Yale's top three. Wiegand, even when he returned, seemed to run out of gas half-way through, and he dropped to number five. Then Howell quit, and Sullivan...
...Sackbut is one of the least sophisticated shows ever put on at Harvard. And in a community where the standard fare is often overly scholastic and unduly pretentious, this might be viewed as welcome relief. But it should not be; there is a middle ground between boring everyone stiff and pandering to the least common denominator of intelligence that Lute, Flute has not found...
...Standing stiff-backed on the podium, ticking off the beat with the rapt air of a man unraveling a problem in calculus, Conductor Szell drew forth music that was a wonder of elegance, discipline and response. Every detail of every number seemed illuminated; all the balances were precise. Although the Cleveland sound was handsome and full-bodied, the visiting orchestra tried for, and consistently achieved, something rare in a large orchestra-the internal clarity of a chamber group...
...reputation for finest quality, finest performance," and to boast that it had the U.S.'s first stock of his new Panasonic portable television sets. Like other Japanese industrialists. Matsushita finds the U.S. and Canada his best customers. Latin American countries are becoming increasingly important, but Europe still maintains stiff trade barriers, and Asian nations have not progressed enough to want the new, sophisticated products Japan turns...