Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vice President Richard Nixon expects a stiff uphill fight against the Democrats, and test-borings of the U.S. electorate confirm his estimate. Last week's Gallup poll of party preference among five major occupation groups shows that since 1952 the G.O.P. has won few new friends and lost some old ones...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory moved to cut domestic consumption last April by imposing stiff restrictions on installment buying. He followed through last month by raising the bank rate to an anti-inflationary 6%. And Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began a series of pep talks designed to spur sales abroad. "We have always been merchant adventurers," he told a London audience of 400 top businessmen last week. "That is our tradition. I urge you to recruit your fellows into those noble ranks." He noted that "our German friends have coined a word, Exportfreudigkeit, or roughly 'export...
During the convention Jackie switched on a rented TV set, but put most of her attention into a painting as a gift for Jack when he got home. Its theme: Jack in a John Paul Jones three-cornered hat marked "El Senatore," striking a stiff Napoleonic stance in the stern of a small dory with other members of his family crowded behind him. ("I've got to get nine Kennedys in that boat with him.") For the big night, Jackie's stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss, her mother, half brother and half sister drove to Hyannisport from Newport, watched...
...Dryden quotation from Absalom and Achitophel goes on: Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was Everything by starts, and Nothing long; But, in the course oj one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, Statesman, and Buffoon...
...Stiff-lipped but studiously correct, Chancellor Raab got the final shocker at a hotel banquet in Klagenfurt. "Neutrality is no mountain fastness," Khrushchev warned. "The fight for peace concerns all people. The presence of rocket bases in northern Italy-and if they are used against the Socialist countries-would presuppose a violation of Austrian neutrality." For its own sake, he said, Austria should warn Italy against "playing with fire." The clear threat: if war should start, Russian troops would cross the Austrian border without compunction...