Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gardens of Dedham. Mass., lay under eight inches of snow last week, and tillers of the soil in Lake Forest, 111., boarded their commuter trains in a below-zero blast off Lake Michigan. From South Carolina to Northern California, flowerbeds were bare, ruined choirs, strawberry patches frozen stiff as a Birds Eye package. But beside a million open fires and upturned thermostats roses bloomed, shrubs sprang into leaf, fruit trees and tomato vines burgeoned with succulence. It is Catalogue Time...
High Epoch. Louis XIII furniture was modern in its day; it marked the point when hand-carved Renaissance woodwork gave way to all the sensuous, symmetrical turnings that a cabinet-maker's lathe could serve up. Finials, banderoles, and swags of fruit and flowers appeared, to give essentially stiff, straight-backed woodwork an animate touch. Table and chair legs ceased to butt into the floor, instead rested on gentler bun feet, but H-form stretchers low to the floor held the frames rigidly intact. Furniture of walnut and ebony supplanted oak because these woods take on a finer finish...
...Macy's shopper can buy an iguana ($2.49), a painting by Joan Miró, a heart-shaped mattress, an old-fashioned stiff collar, a complete set of Tom Swift books, fresh Beluga caviar, and 900 Macy's private-label items, the last at prices 10% to 15% below national brands. Macy's has a shop that sells nothing but candles, another devoted solely to Oriental rugs, still others dealing only in antiques or plastic flowers. It also has its own prescription drugstore, hardware and auto-accessories shops, theater club, travel agent, and a jewelry store watched over...
...Wine & Stiff Collars. A major beneficiary of all these rises was Macy's of Manhattan, the anchor and source of Macy's network of stores (many of them under different names, such as Lasalle & Koch of Toledo, Davison's of Atlanta). Macy's 21-story store in Herald Square, which takes up a city block and has 21 acres of selling space, is a display case for more than 400,000 items of merchandise, each one of which is kept in at least a week's supply...
Despite the commission's disclaimers about "socialized medicine," the plan was sure to meet stiff opposition on political grounds. And because of the estimated $3 billion price for the plan's first five years, there was immediate criticism of its costliness. But the commission said it was not asking for a bit more than the plan was worth. The annual cost to the U.S. economy from lack of effective treatment for men and women in their productive years, said the commission, runs into the billions of dollars...