Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wartime shipmates and Ivy Leaguers who flocked to help out in the campaign. The old pols were disgusted, until Jack and his youthful supporters won handsomely, with 42% of the vote. On the night of the primary victory, old Honey Fitz, 83, crawled up on a table, danced a stiff-legged Irish jig and sang Sweet Adeline. It was the swan song for the old, colorful and rascally breed of Boston Irish politics...
...Washington endorsement of Negro sit-in strikes -"the American spirit is coming alive again"-this thoroughly sawed the limb off from under the few Southerners who had supported him.) In New Jersey, Kennedy again spent premium time polishing up Favorite Son Robert Meyner, who, as Governor, was already under stiff pressure by the Kennedy forces in his delegation; still, stubborn Bob Meyner refused to make any public endorsements. In California, Kennedy advance men helped fan reports that Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown was now "leaning" Kennedyward, but Brown was not yet talked out of his 81 first-ballot favorite-son votes...
...cold fury, Patterson hounded him about the ring, shooting home numbing lefts to the body and a jolting short right to the head. The final left hook seemed to wrench Johansson's jaw around his ear. For a full four minutes, Johansson lay completely unconscious on his back, stiff and stark except for his spasmodically twitching left...
...SCAP's Government Section, the general gave the Japanese the liberties that some of them now seem bent on throwing away-free speech, universal suffrage, an independent judiciary. In 1949, Detroit Banker Joseph Dodge, MacArthur's tough-minded economic adviser, forced upon the reluctant Japanese a stiff dose of deflation and decontrol-and thereby laid the foundations of Japan's present economic strength. No less vital was the land-reform program which, by redistributing 4,500,000 acres of land and cutting tenant farmers from 48% of the agricultural population to only 9%, gave Japan a contented...
Saint-Ex was born in 1900, and so was too young for combat flying during World War I. It was the only omission of a flamboyant career, and the flyer made up for it by his death in 1944, when, overage and stiff from crash wounds, he disappeared over the Mediterranean at the controls of a U.S. reconnaissance plane. The legend he left is a rare compound of literary brilliance and high gallantry; no biographer, including the present one, has been wholly successful in dealing with...