Word: stiff
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...knows that diplomacy is not a popularity contest. He arrived in Japan at a favorable moment, when a reaction against the earlier violence had already set in, and he now concedes that Predecessor MacArthur on the whole did a good job in a difficult period. Reischauer's own stiff tests still lie ahead. One of them: defense, U.S. occupation of Okinawa is a continuing source of friction in Japan, which wants to resume full sovereignty (it may soon get a bigger role in the island's administration). Though Japan spends only 1.4% of its national income on defense...
They should face stiff competition from the Indians. Dartmouth's biggest threat is Jerome Bentley, a 200-yard individual medley swimmer, who can also do either the 200-yard breaststroke or the 200-yard butterfly...
...outrank the manual of arms. Though all Culver boys above eighth grade are enrolled in R.O.T.C., drill is confined to Saturday mornings in warm weather. Hazing is nonexistent; newcomers are plebes for only one term, are obliged only to call old students "Mr." More important are Culver's stiff entrance exams (average cadet IQ: 120) and drill in such matters as college algebra, Latin and Russian. Often recruited from Culver's resoundingly successful summer camp, the boys seem to thrive on the school's theory that esprit de corps enhances the spirit of study. "I didn...
...nearly 40 who does portrait sketches to eke out a precariously transient existence, but all of her emotional assets are banked with her 97-year-old grandfather, Nonno. Billed as "the world's oldest living and practicing poet," Nonno (Alan Webb) gives poetry readings and wears the stiff white coffin of great age with gallantry as he wrestles with his failing memory to complete a new poem...
...line of Captain Dave Grannis and Dave Morse is Ike Ikauniks, who poked in the Crimson's first goal at 6:03 of the opening period after Morse had sipped the play down the rink. Reports from the Western trip indicate Ikauniks did a great deal against that stiff competition...