Word: stiff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Belatedlv. French officials took a regretful backward look at Ferhat Abbas. Sighed one: "He was a man with whom we could have come to an understanding." France's stiff-necked President Charles de Gaulle may find that he blundered badly in not having dealt with Abbas-while there was still time...
...fight black-marketing, the government ordered that 15 articles-among them toothpaste, thread, and nursing nipples-would be sold henceforth only in government-designated stores. But what Castro cannot do by fiat is to end his own mismanagement, which has crippled Cuba's economy, or to overcome the stiff U.S. trade embargo, which makes matters very much worse...
Terrible-eyed, a father rose up from his coffin one night last week, rushed after his beautiful young daughter and with bloodthirsty screams attempted to sink his fangs into her throat. Poor stiff. Some other vampire, succubus, lamia, boggart, barghest, uturuncu or related fee-faw-fum had already drunk the poor girl dry. The U.S., as summer moviegoers may have observed, is crawling with the bloody things. The horror industry is in the hideous throes of what may be the biggest necromantic revival since Count Dracula was a nipper...
After a 14-hour day wielding the hypodermic on hundreds of terrified Chinese in Hong Kong's refugee-packed city of Victoria, the exhausted British doctor could no longer keep a stiff upper lip. "Damn them!" he exploded. "They had this thing raging in there, and they tried to keep it a secret. It's inhuman." By "they" he meant Communist authorities of Red China, who had a cholera epidemic for months in Kwangtung province, around Canton, and had tried to keep news of it from slipping through the cracks in the Bamboo Curtain. They could not keep...
...stimulates conversation." Adds Grant Simmons Jr., president of the mattress-making Simmons Co.: "The only thing that a board table really gives is doodling space. And as we have been trying to promote the idea that you spend a third of your life in bed, the old table and stiff, high-backed chairs just seemed too ascetic." Even more informal are the plans for the tableless board room approved last week by the directors of Long Island's Century Theaters: each director will have an upholstered writing chair, and the room is convertible into a screening theater...