Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football player, a skilled skier, water-skier, swimmer, horsewoman, golfer and tennis player. She is also an enthusiastic twister who would dance the whole night through-if there were anyone else left around. Last week, taking her abundant energies onto the global road with Husband Bobby, Ethel set a stiff pace. And by week's end it seemed that she had at least half of Tokyo following her advice to everyone she met: "Just call me Ethel...
...same day the high court threw out the conviction of James F. Noto, an active Communist organizer in New York, by establishing stiff new rules for proving "knowing membership" in subversive organizations. Because of these new standards the Justice Department has abandoned its cases against several active Communists...
Officials in boiled shirts clutched tape measures and struggled to look important. Skivvy-suited competitors sucked oranges, signed autographs and stretched stiff muscles with weird calisthenics. A brass band assaulted the night with Music to Run a Relay To. Over everything hovered the athletic aroma of sweat and oil of wintergreen. Then the 55th Millrose Games were on, and the 16,000 people packed into Madison Square Garden were given a night to remember...
Like Broadway plays, some courses open out of town (San Diego is one try-out spot), get favorable reviews and move on to bigtime Westwood. U.C.L.A. never knows quite what to expect; adult students are no simple problem. One stiff engineering course, which meets six hours a week and requires 14 hours of homework, ran into lonely-wife trouble. Now the wives attend lectures on their husbands' professional problems, which somewhat soothes them. Hardest of all is predicting the pulling power of new courses. One lecture series on "Man and Art" was supposed to draw 36 people, wound...
...play's events; she comes to a mystical understanding of India, a sense of how its enervating cycle of season and its vastness make a mockery of human values and the understanding spas her will to live. Miss Quested is played by Ann Meacham, and she is stiff and frightened and honest in just the right English proportions. Fielding (Eric Portman), the old teacher who learns that Indian and English are like oil and water, is good-a rueful, dignified portrayal...