Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack Thieu directly, was narrowly persuaded last week to drop a no-confidence vote against Loc. Still, on Loc's orders, Vietnamese courts have tried 32 South Viet namese servicemen and eight civilians on charges of embezzlement of government funds, bribery and associated crimes. All have drawn stiff sentences; three officers, found guilty of embezzling government funds or the salaries of their soldiers, were sentenced to death...
Harvard doesn't expect to run into any stiff competition until May, when on three consecutive Saturdays it meets Yale, participates in the Heptagonals, and faces Army. Until then, the Crimson will probably be able to concentrate on individual performances, and many are bound to come...
...study of 1,500,000 men called for examinations between 1960 and 1962, Col. Robert A. Bier, chief medical officer for the national Selective Service System, found that 382,000 (or 25.4%) were granted medical deferments. Chief causes were musculoskeletal complaints (14.9%) such as stiff arms, trick knees, flat feet or the loss of an index, middle or ring finger from at least the mid-portion (slicing off the first joint will not do). Cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders-including homosexuality and bedwetting -each accounted for 11%. So did being 20% overweight or underweight. Bad eyesight claimed 6%, while...
South Carolina's Strom Thurmond added a stiff antiriot clause, seeking a five-year jail term and $10,000 fine for anyone who travels from one state to another with intent to incite a riot. At week's end, the Senate adopted the entire substitute package; a vote on final passage is due this week...
...journalism (TIME) as well as fiction (Kings Go Forth. Stars in My Crown), Brown tells his tale in matter-of-fact, down-to-earth prose. But by the time Paul heads eastward, the least wary reader will know that the hero is in for a stiff bout of navel-gazing-and, almost surely, a religious experience that will change his existence. His guru is a holy man named Bhaiji who receives a mortal stab wound during a religious riot. And sure enough, just before his death, Bhaiji manages through his power to implant faith and purpose in Paul...