Word: stiff
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Army training methods are excellent. At Fort Jackson, S.C., last week, Company B, 2nd Battalion, ist Training Regiment fidgeted in new, stiff fatigues and listened to Sergeant Delma Stanfill bark out the basic facts about a gas mask. At the end of the drill, after they had practiced donning the mask, another sergeant tested them by dropping smoke and tear gas grenades near by. About 20 of the basic trainees bolted in terror for the woods. In the past, trainees have cried for their mothers. But, after this first day of panic, most of the trainees complete the tough, eight...
Ponderous and stiff with the incrustation of centuries of bickering and privilege is the Eastern Orthodox Communion-an assortment of 15 national churches headed by patriarchs and loosely bound by a common tradition of liturgy, sacerdotalism, and suspicion of Rome. Last week, on the sun-drenched Greek island of Rhodes, representatives of 12 of the 15 main churches gathered for a Pan-Orthodox Conference...
Managers Union. Though the recruiters charge client companies stiff fees for their services (the average: 20% of one year's salary for each executive recruited, plus search costs), many corporations find that recruiters can cover a larger field than their own personnel departments. And through a recruiter, a company can solicit in secrecy-a vital consideration when hiring to crank up a new product line or open a new division...
...beginning to be heard, arguing that what ought to be done is to surrender. Their arguments will not commend themselves to many Americans; yet what may be called the practical, political morals of this fearful question genuinely deserve investigation." After all, said Alsop-who does his doomsaying with a stiff upper lip-worse was yet to come: "The rule is that you must always be ready for the world to go on, even if you suspect the world may end next week...
...laude high school graduate, Joyce will shoulder a stiff scholastic load at Holy Cross (subjects: Greek, Latin, German, English, history, theology). He will pay his way by pitching, and he expects to improve on a four-year high school and American Legion record of 59 victories (including seven no-hitters) and 12 losses. The big leagues can wait. "If the arm holds out," says Dick Joyce, "the money should still be there...