Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year at Harvard? The gloom of December when the war got worse, when draft calls increased, when your thesis tumbled from your frostbitten fingers like a heavy stone and the future looked as dead as the icy eyes on a frozen pigeon which lay in the trash claws outstretched, stiff, scratching the clouds--too cold to even interest the maggots...
...perhaps you were one of those who, bravely, went on with the work to be done, as usual, knowing full well the weighty perils you faced but taking them in your stride, like a man, with a stiff upper lip, as you munched buttered toast in the late morning, surrounded by friendly fellows in the warmth of the drawing room of your favorite club...
...attracted a large gallery, including several FBI agents. For their draft resistance, three of the youths were sent to prison for up to three years; the fourth, David P. O'Brien, a 19-year-old Boston University freshman, was sentenced under the Federal Youth Correction Act to a stiff term of up to six years...
Like many chief executives, God was henpecked by his secretary, a busybody of a woman named Myrtle who insisted on removing the centerfold picture of Playboy before allowing him to read the magazine. He was bored stiff bv the routine of his job, especially Sunday-morning "tune-in duty," when he monitored church services on earth He sometimes complained of the lonely burden he bore as ruler of the universe. "The buck, as Mr. Truman said, stops here, ' God wrote. "And I mean it really stops here. I would give my omniscience to be able to pass just...
...members of the Faculty Executive Committee, which has gone on record as opposed to the strike. Whatever the results, one thing is sure. These reports will not be ignored. If pro-administration, they will be damned, and demonstrated against, and probably overturned. If anti-administration, there will be stiff pressure from faculty members and students for radical reform. The power distribution of the university has been changed. The threat of another paralyzing strike hovers in the background...