Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rival Images. Britain pushed for more orders for its short-haul BAC One-Eleven jet, which faces stiff competition from Boeing's new 737 and Douglas' DC-9, and its BAC Super VC 10, which seeks to crack the domination of Boeing's 707 and Douglas' DC-8 in the European long-haul market. Italy's Fiat and two German firms displayed plans for a new vertical takeoff reconnaissance craft, the VAK 191. Even the small European countries offered advanced products, such as the Swedish supersonic Saab-35 Draken interceptor and the Dutch Fokker F.28...
...ECUADOR, opposition is mounting rapidly against the well-meaning but often heavyhanded four-man military junta - even within the military. Three weeks ago, after the junta decreed a series of stiff tariff increases, Guayaquil merchants went on a seven-day protest strike, immobilizing the country's industrial capital. The junta declared martial law, sent in troops to end the strike, and packed some 70 people off to jail, including two key air force officers who apparently sided with the civilians. The situation is not likely to be eased by forecasts of a 40% drop in 1965 banana exports because...
...about it. In Pennsylvania and New York, legislators instantly introduced bills to ban the sport; in Washington, Senator John Tower called for a Congressional investigation. But fix and fraud are not synonymous. The truth was simply that a big, tough, fast young boxer hit a woozy old stiff in the face. Nobody will ever be sure just how hard Cassius Clay's punch was, but it was hard enough to make Sonny Liston call it a payday...
Griswold suggested that the stiff competition for admission to the Law School had had its effects on grades. "In the current admissions situation, it is not surprising that we have relatively few failures...
...beginning of La Lecon, the pupil is admitted to the professor's study. She has ribbons in her hair, a vacuous stare, chewing gum, a copy of Elle, and a youthful, overpowering spontaneity. Her new tutor enters: striped necktie, fuzzy bead, stiff-bearing, and a fixed gaze which could be either intense or myopic. The lesson begins...