Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stiff-necked Steve Kennedy, who once refused police files to a Wagner-approved TV scriptwriter and made it stick, refused to issue a formal apology. He would only declare that his remarks had been misinterpreted, that "no slur on the religious sincerity of anyone was intended." that if he was as anti-Semitic as Bob Wagner was apparently suggesting, mere apology would not suffice anyway. A reticent man, Commissioner Kennedy refrained from making any sympathetic play of the fact that Mrs. Kennedy is Jewish...
Into the state education code, said the commission, should go a stiff three-R curriculum. For the first grade: reading taught by phonics, writing with spelling (now often delayed until third grade), arithmetic emphasizing basic principles. Science and foreign languages should begin no later than sixth grade. From elementary grades on, statewide tests should check on each school's progress. To jolt high schools, state-run colleges should report on freshmen performances-and school boards should publish the results...
...Tyrone Guthrie production of H.M.S. Pinafore slapped salt freshness into Gilbert and Sullivan. Though bold as always, Director Guthrie in no sense threw out the baby with the bilgewater. He is too lustily stage-minded not to want to limber up the D'Oyly Carte tradition wherever stiff joints masquerade as style; but he is too English and too understanding of G. & S. to want to undermine what they did. The sudden gay way in which he has the crew lift Captain Corcoran off one side of the deck and deposit him on the other admirably indicates the kind...
Hanging On. In the swirling Congo, this charge was hard to prove or disprove. But the Belgians did seem to be stalling on their promise to evacuate their troops from the last big airbases they controlled, including the spacious, well-equipped Kamina strip in Katanga. Hammarskjold fired off a stiff note to Brussels, virtually accusing the Belgians of lying in assuring him that all their soldiers had left when, in fact, he charged, 600 remained. Belgium called this figure "exaggerated," replied tartly that insufficient U.N. transport planes had been provided...
...breaking up a double play by breaking up the shortstop. He admits to throwing an occasional beanball. He discusses the batting weaknesses of leading sluggers. He says the illegal spitball is "quite popular in the National League," laments only the fact that "I need a good stiff wind blowing straight out from the plate to get anything on the pitch...