Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France has consistently opposed East-West talks about Berlin. During a one-day trip to Paris last week, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer did not change stiff-backed Charles de Gaulle's mind, but seemed to convince him at least that he should not boycott such talks when they do occur. Meanwhile, in divided Berlin itself, tension rose...
...barber with stiff fingers is a barber without a job; so Barber William D. was desperate when his hands-particularly his overworked right hand-became crippled by arthritis. Last week William D., 52, could again hold his scissors, and was working on a light schedule in an Iowa city. In place of the diseased bone in the middle joints of his right fingers were stainless steel hinges...
Bargain Basement. Home buyers can expect a better break next year. The builders intend to trim home prices from this year's median of $15,100, to $14,950 in 1962. Behind the decision to cut prices are several factors: stiff competition, fears that the higher-priced market is saturated, and expectations that new FHA rules permitting smaller down payments will attract more lower-income families. More efficient building methods and increasing reliance on prebuilt parts will help bring prices down...
Towards the end of each meal in the evening the veilleur de nuit drops in for his bit of cheer.... He is a nobody. He carries a lantern and a bunch of keys. He makes the rounds through the night, stiff as an automaton... In the scheme of things he's not worth the brine to pickle a herring. He's just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole...
Miss Peterson is not up to the changes the role demands. Her ambition is but coquetry, her acute sympathy for Rosmer comes through as mere casual interest, her strength is undermined by a whining voice. Nor does her stiff body prove her capable of the regeneration which she might have offered the house of Rosmer...