Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wallace reasons that the Republicans and Democrats may split the moderate vote and leave him as the conservatives' only champion. In fact the only cloud on Wallace's horizon is the prospect of stiff resistance on the gubernatorial succession issue from a small but determined minority in the state senate...
...negotiations sputtered, ground to a halt, then limped into low gear again, the atmosphere around the New York newspaper strike fairly bristled with stiff pronouncements. The Guild's chief negotiator, Executive Vice President Thomas J. Murphy, saw "no progress." Said he: "This is no longer collective bargaining but a test of strength." The newspapers, said John J. Gaherin, president of the New York Publishers Association, "are being asked for things that are just impossible. The publishers' backs are firm as a ramrod...
...June and were a major factor in the 2.2% rise in wholesale prices during the year's first half, dropped in August for the second straight month, thanks to a bountiful harvest and beneficent weather. Steel demand tapered as the strike threat faded, and import competition remained stiff, serving to dampen any inclination toward rises in basic steel prices. Industrial investment this year will scale an alltime peak of $50 billion; that will expand capacity and reduce pressure on marginal plant. One powerful psychological brake to inflation: General Motors' decision to hold the line in auto prices...
...evening after a hard day at the office, a chap named Hedges is met at the front door by Mrs. Hedges, who hands him a stiff shot of sherry and a nasty bit of news: he is now, and for several months has been, a cuckold. A bit of rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he still sends her birthday cards and occasionally advances the new couple a few quid to keep things...
Balanchine's New York City Ballet: "Pretentious and silly," "stiff and neoclassical," "gymnastic and stylistically infelicitous." His dancers: "A memorial should be erected to all the gallant Americans who fell at Covent Garden...