Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the better Harvard wrestlers will be facing stiff matches. Howie Henjyoji wrestles Charlie Dameron of Springfield at 123, and Paul Padlak meets the Maroons' John Doss at 160. Chris Wickens and Jeff Grant, at 167 and 177 for the Crimson, take on Fred Peraino and Joe Cerra. Padlak scored the only pin against Columbia on Saturday...
...deep is this reluctance, in fact, that Western authorities have been cracking down hard on Westerners seeking to assist in the escapes of East Berliners. Last week three West Germans who helped East Germans dressed in U.S. uniforms make it through the Wall to the West were rewarded with stiff jail sentences by West German courts, and two U.S. soldiers who were also involved drew demotions and hard labor sentences. Additional punishment: deductions of $83 a month from the new privates' paychecks...
David Henry, 60, Illinois. A stiff individualist (he insists on spelling words his way, such as enrolment with one 1), Henry has a cold, efficient manner that can jar a meeting into action. He is executive committee chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, vice president of the Association of American Universities. A former English professor, he headed Wayne University, served at N.Y.U. before going to Illinois in 1955. He goes to meetings by train, and "a flow of memos goes off in every direction when I get home...
...about a group of wildly disparate travelers locked together in a tight situation. For the people are plausible only as creations of a novelist at the end of his rope, searching for something to add zest to his book. A 1948 Presidential candidate on the Vegetarian ticket and his stiff-upper-lipped wife; a mysterious adventurer, escaping from Philadelphia; a Negro undertaker who utters only "yes" and "no" and bursts into tears at the end of the trip--almost a floating "I Love Lucy...
...Presidential candidate on the Vegetarian ticket and his stiff-upper-lipped wife; a mysterious adventurer, escaping from Philadelphia; a Negro undertaker who utters only "yes" and "no" and bursts into tears at the end of the trip almost a floating "I Lover Luey." thing. They can be profound, can't they? This one contrasts two kinds of people, the committed and the uncommitted. The narrator represents the alienated side, naturally. He was born in Monaco, and thus has no real nationality. His mother ran away when he was young and he never knew his father. He is a man without...