Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Journal American to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, carried a fat, 40-page monthly supplement written largely by and for Negroes. Called Tuesday,* and distributed on either a Sunday or a Tuesday, it begins with a claimed circulation of 1,400,000, and may provide some stiff competition for the leading Negro magazine Ebony, which has a solid circulation...
...this disparity that brought a stiff Indian protest to Washington last week, complaining that Pakistan's modern planes and armor were supplied by the U.S. with the explicit understanding that they would never be used against India.* Ayub Khan responded that "we will spend our time dealing with the enemy rather than putting the American weapons in cotton wool." Uncertain just what was happening in the Chhamb area, U.S. military officers flew to the fighting scene to investigate the charges...
...diplomats called it a settlement. In reality, it was an imposed truce, coming after four months of agonizing negotiations that were often blocked by Caamaño, and more recently by Imbert. To soften up Imbert-and Caamaño-the U.S. and OAS applied stiff diplomatic pressures, then cut off the money they needed to pay their troops and civil servants. Other pressure came from Navy Commodore Francisco Rivera Caminero, leader of the armed forces, who warned Imbert to give in or be forced out. Even then, Imbert kept insisting that the proposed settlement was too favorable...
...ROAD, LET NO MAN DECREASE IT, said the no-parking sign, and any man who decreased the road was soon deceased. Ancient Rome banned all women from driving chariots, and decreed that no one could drive near the Colosseum during the gladiator-baiting. Europe's early roads charged stiff tolls to pay for improvements, such as sufficient widening "to let a man pass with a dead corpse on a cart." The Romans, using heavy stones in layers, built a 50,000-mi. network of roads that wound through much of Europe and North Africa...
...dull. After seeing Olivia de Havilland in Candida, she wrote: "A pallid, one-dimensional heroine in a kind of comic-strip Shaw. When she enters, she is an interruption, nothing more." She dismissed Conductor Rafael Kubelik: "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat, being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti...