Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increased fines will work as a deterrent only with better enforcement than at present. In a city where 100 per cent enforcement is impossible because of the size of the police department, random fines must be made. But random fines can be effective if they are regular, stiff, and "unfixable...
...fortissimo music lover as well as civic leader, he helped spark a fund-raising drive that saved the New Orleans Opera. He earned his claim to a job in the new Administration by belligerently and successfully managing Kennedy's Louisiana campaign last year, in the teeth of stiff states' rights and Republican opposition...
...inaudible dialogue, the invisible actors (they studiously avoided the spots of light in which they were supposed to stand), the embarrassing moments of silence (while actors waited for props to descend from the ceiling), the inappropriate music, the stiff and ungainly choreography--all might have been bearable had there been any actors on stage who knew what they were doing...
...Kenya Legislative Council banned the sale of KMQ. But despite the threat of stiff fines, Akumu kept brewing, and despite the scores of stiffs found, Nairobi kept drinking. Akumu got to be a wealthy man. He acquired five wives, a flashy Opel sedan, three rambling houses...
...state of nonreligious textbooks to children in public and private schools alike. In 1947's Everson v. Board of Education-a judgment that Kennedy used heavily in his arguments-the court approved a New Jersey law permitting free bus service for parochial school children but laid down a stiff distinction between service to student and service to school...