Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long Song. One day last August, Morrison was picked up for burglary, and the cops who locked him up were not in his tidy plan of loot and split. Faced with a stiff sentence, he decided to sing. Last week the good Chicago cops were rounding up the bad ones ; all over town charges of police crime bubbled up. In the burgeoning scandal, 17 policemen were arrested on criminal charges, and upwards of 130 (of a police force of 11,200) were haled into special offices in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel to take lie-detector tests. The total...
Isolated examples of discrimination do crop up. A year ago when a hotel manager near Papakura refused to serve a beer to a Maori, he was not only soundly criticized in the nation's press but got a stiff reprimand from the hotel-chain owner, Sir Ernest Davis. Last week, caught between his near-fanatical devotion to rugby and what amounts to a national dishonor if Maori footballers are excluded, New Zealand's man-in-the-street was making his choice plain: no Maoris, no match...
...mass rallies for which he is famous, plus conferences with Protestant mission leaders and heads of government. They will also face an unprecedented confusion of tongues; some local leaders asked for as many as five translators to relay Billy's words. And they will be up against stiff competition from non-Christian groups, notably the growing numbers of Moslems, and many offbeat Christian sects, such as Ghana's Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim, and the Musama Disco Christo Church...
...Basic Ones. A stiff-collared man of headmasterly mien, Carl Hansen was born in Wolbach, Neb. (pop. 442), graduated from the University of Nebraska, got his doctorate at the University of Southern California. As an English teacher (and later principal) at Omaha's Technical High School, he developed a three-level English curriculum, forerunner of his four-track system. Long before going to Washington in 1947, he had hammered out a tough-minded notion of priorities: "Out of the unbelievable range and variety of human activities and experiences, only a limited number of basic ones can be selected...
Author Edith de Born, fiftyish, is herself Viennese, lives in Belgium as the wife of a French banker. She writes in a rather stiff English that never conveys the cozy, weary sloppiness of Viennese upper-class slang. And many cliches of her adopted language apparently still strike her as fresh; too often her characters "champ at the bit" or find troubles weighing on them "like a millstone." To Author de Born's credit, her characterization is not nearly so cliché-ridden as her language. The sad pleasures of between-wars Vienna, the long afternoons of penurious idleness...