Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well recognized that the invasion force would require its own air cover. For that, Kennedy at first stipulated that those same, Cuban-piloted B-26s do the job. On D-day plus one, it became clear that the invasion force was desperately pinned down on the beach by unexpectedly stiff fire and Castro air attacks. Then, in a post-midnight meeting, Kennedy, as Sorensen says, "agreed finally that unmarked Navy jets could protect the B-26s when they provided the cover the next morning." Schlesinger elaborates a bit: the President authorized "a flight of six unmarked jets from the Carrier...
...Disapproving Parent. After its first stiff little protest, the French government treated the flight with understanding restraint last week, somewhat like a disapproving parent who has caught a child in a naughty act but doesn't want to hurt his feelings with a spanking. The press was amused: L'Aurore seemed flattered that anyone would consider France's puny atomic arsenal worth spying on, and Combat put tongue in cheek to ask WILL THE FRANCO-AMERICAN WAR TAKE PLACE...
...began to show. Lema moaned about his driving ("I know where to hit the ball, but I can't hit it there") and Nicklaus griped about the greens: "Bumpy, too slow, the worst I've ever seen for a British Open." Player's complaint was a stiff neck, the consequence of trying to do calisthenics in his bathtub. "I can only manage half a backswing," he groaned. Peter Thomson kept quiet-mostly because he had never felt better in his life. For four years, he had been plagued by chronic hay fever, but Royal Birkdale...
Skouras says he is willing to put in some $20 million of his own, has large financing from Marine Midland Trust Co. and Chase Manhattan Bank, and wants the Government to ante up about $125 million. The cost is stiff-but anything would be a bargain if it could help rescue the U.S. merchant marine. The once proud fleet is being pushed into increasingly rough straits by low efficiency, high labor costs, and fierce foreign competition...
...durable goods that sales have slumped for its 17,000 shopkeepers. Making this situation worse, a flood of job-seeking immigrants from other, poorer Arab lands has raised Kuwait's population by 46% since 1961. Last week, tightening its policy of Kuwait for the Kuwaitis, the government imposed stiff new jail sentences and fines for immigration violations and amended dismissal provisions of the civil service code to pave the way for an anticipated purge of non-Kuwaiti government employees...