Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue overalls and white skullcaps, are darning trousers that belong to 1,500 anonymous spouses . . . There are 23 'factories' in this particular commune, each one employing from 100 to 700 women workers. The workers, many of them older women, crouch on their heels, blow on their stiff fingers, and try their clumsy best to keep their output up to the norm...
...addition, McJennett, who seldom gets a chance to swim against stiff competition, almost pulled the upset of the day in the 200 yard breaststroke. Walt Monahan, who holds the Penn record in the event, barely edged him out for first place in a time of 2:34. Crimson captain Bill Schellstede did not even make the trip...
...Cabinet and the saloon of the rank and file. Recalls one New York leader: "I shall never forget the sight of the Trees' English butler, Collins, dying by stately inches at the thought of what that mass of Democrats could do to the house, or of Ronnie Tree, stiff, perspiring, and apprehensive. And all the time Marietta was sashaying around as if it were a picnic in Central Park...
...thought were as stiff as a brick-built wall...
...composed the above, and a stiff...