Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decrees were stiff, and even stiffer ones would surely follow. Ironsi warned of the "many sacrifices, however painful" that would be required, demanding "not only the cooperation, but the discipline of every Nigerian...
...competition will be stiff, with Notre Dame's Ed Dean, a 4:03 miler indoors, defending champion Jim Warner of Army, and Bob Zieminski of Georgetown competing for the mile title; and Richard Urbina of Georgetown, and Herb Germann of Seton Hall on hand for the half-mile...
...goes to government operations, which have all but shut down. Phone service is nearly dead. Lights wink on and off fitfully. Main waterfront roads are pot-holed or sometimes buried in six inches of muddy ooze. Business is grinding to a halt in the same way-partly owing to stiff taxes and partly to the emergence of a new, uneducated and sadly unprepared black elite that is replacing the bright, well-trained mulattoes who long ran Haiti's commercial life...
Chekhov had a gift for giving life to the life-sick which is somehow lacking in John Gielgud's curiously inanimate performance. The pukka sahib accents of the cast conjure up stiff-lipped Britons muddling through, rather than Russians sucked under in emotional quicksands. Chekhov's night music of the soul, so beautifully attuned in Director William Ball's 1958 off-Broadway revival, is jangled here. At its purest, it is an ineffable resonance of laughter and tears, making the whole world kin. It is unthinkable that anyone who loves Chekhov would miss the Gielgud production...
...unemployed flyer, just tries to do too much with his body. He contorts across the stage, face grimacing and body tensed. Everyone knows that Yang is a bastard, so Shen Te's love for him can only be based on sheer sex appeal. Deitch, by equating gruffness and stiff limbs with masculinity makes his appeal to Shen Te incomprehensible...