Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider Cardinal Gushing "suddenly stiff-necked" for expelling eight rebellious seminarians [April 15]? Would you consider the Marine Corps commandant unreasonable if he didn't listen to a bunch of second lieutenants who tried to force him into running things their...
Most of the show's faults are minor. If Munger's blocking sometimes seems aimless, if Allman is a bit stiff and Popovich a little unsteady, the production washes over it all with a wave of unselfconscious exuberance. The audience has only to lean back and laugh...
...sense in letting indecision over the timetable drag on forever." Of course not, since he wants the evacuation to begin before the parliamentary elections next spring, in which he fears that the Gaullists might have their majority trimmed or even lose it. That, in addition to the stiff-backed attitude of the U.S., could make it considerably tougher for him to carry out his dismantling plans for NATO...
Resource-rich, highly industrialized, welfare-loving Sweden has long enjoyed the highest living standard in Europe. Prices are stiff (76? for a pack of cigarettes, $9 for a fifth of Scotch, $1.50 per Ib. for hamburger), but after 32 years of unbroken and rising prosperity, Sweden's workers have grown so affluent that about all the tiny, obstreperous Communist Party could find to demand in the last election was "two houses for every family." Swedish families already own 375,000 vacation homes and 300,000 pleasure boats, as well as a car for every four persons. Domestic tranquility...
...last week the government announced that the trade deficit continued to rise sharply during January and February. To halt that ominous trend, Erlander expects to give his country an unpleasant antidote that the U.S., confronted with almost the same problem, has so far spurned: a strongly deflationary budget, stiff tax boosts, sharp cuts in government spending...