Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spanish Ra and Ca will combine next year into a single intermediate course offering both conversation and reading practice. Subject to Faculty approval, the change will "eliminate the stiff boundary now separating the two courses," according to Edward J. Geary, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Claques & Jeers. Menderes & Co. had clearly been incompetent, venal, corrupt and highhanded. Personally, Bayar has won reluctant respect by his stiff-necked dignity, apologizing for nothing, defiantly reminding his judges that he is an old man and indifferent to what they can do to him. Menderes has lost stature by his air of abject humility and his voluble eagerness to shift responsibility to anybody but himself. To many of his once fervent supporters, he no longer seems like the great man who ran Turkey so smoothly and so long...
Administration is the most unimaginative decoration turned out by the U.S. Government so far-and the competition for that title is stiff...
...spirit." One day in Paris, a friend of the painter Fernand Leger said to Leger: "Just wait. You're about to see a very odd specimen. He goes bicycling in a derby hat." Leger waited. "A few minutes later," he recalled, "I saw coming along, very stiff, completely in silhouette, an extraordinary mobile object under the derby hat with spectacles and a dark suit. He advanced quietly, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective. The picturesque personage was none other than the architect Le Corbusier...
...will be no match for Dartmouth's Ashworth and Zeilman, or Brown's Jack Moreland, who is capable of a 9.8 100-yard sprint at any time. Moreland also runs the quarter mile and the low hurdles and he could win them all. In the 440, he will have stiff competition from Holzel of Dartmouth, a good sub-49 man in that event...