Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida last week, Koufax got up one morning to find that his left arm was stiff and swollen. General Manager Buzzie Bavasi packed him off to Los Angeles for X rays. The verdict: at 29 he has a "traumatic arthritic condition" in his pitching elbow that flares up under "repeated stress"-throwing a baseball, for instance. Koufax cannot pitch the Dodgers' season opener, and there is no telling when he will be back in action-if at all. There is, of course, no cure for arthritis. Said Bavasi: "I am resetting the club right now, with the idea that...
...while a gross, pipe-puffing man in galoshes and a checkered coat ambles by through the Styrofoam snow in wood-cutout make-believe. Grooms's cartoon vision stems from reality. To do the snow scene, he sketched a Manhattan street corner during a blizzard until his fingers were stiff with cold...
...Buffalo [March 19]: I was not "stark naked." Both Miss Rainer and myself were covered completely with a thick coating of mineral oil. We did not simply "move across the stage in slow motion," but proceeded carefully in a rhythm too complicated to explain. Furthermore I have a stiff knee and am unable to do a great many steps. I think it is more important to realize that this dance was performed by a handicapped person rather than a naked...
Chaffee's showing, hampered somewhat by equipment problems, was considered excellent in view of the stiff competition--the top finishers in most of the events were members of the U.S. Olympic team. Blodgett finished third in the slalom among the Eastern skiers, and took 23rd overall in the downhill...
Most surprisingly, Bismarck judged his fellow Junkers to be overly stiff and inbred. He recommended that they loosen up and get some elan by marrying Jews; an ideal match, he said, "would bring together a Christian stallion of German breed with a Jewish mare." His whole life was dedicated to making the once lowly Prussian monarchs the most powerful kings of Europe; yet he lied to them and fought with them, sneered that the Hohenzollerns were Johnny-come-latelies from Swabia...