Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall of Windfall brought other penny stocks crashing down with it. Many run-of-the-mine speculators took a hard dive last week, and even experienced investors took a stiff beating. Many companies in the Timmins area were able to put money in their treasuries before the Windfall affair, intend to go on drilling on the theory that one failure is not decisive. But the Windfall case could discourage the speculative buying that Canada needs to find mines, and it will probably produce legislation to introduce stricter regulation of the securities business, including full disclosure of insiders' dealings...
...then I felt I saw the inchoate shape of an idea struggling to be born amid the sloppy shambles of stiff movement and stiffer speaking that I actually witnessed. But nothing so refined as an idea emerged, when simple problems distracted attention even from the sense of the words...
...Stratford is still disappointingly inept. Someone named Tom Sawyer is playing Hamlet there this year. The poor fellow may very well know how to get a fence painted, but he certainly has no idea how to sit on one. Left alone on the stage for soliloquies, he is wooden, stiff-legged and ill at ease. His fencing lessons have resulted in a duel scene that might have been fought between Mrs. Warren Harding and the lady in Ohio. Considering the Gertrude, the Laertes and the Ophelia that surround him, Sawyer is at least letting no one down. The highlight...
...perhaps even a write-off of part or all of its accumulated $224 million deficit. Said Sir Giles: "The government will ensure that financially we will be in no worse a position as a result of taking on these aircraft." That was rather negative assurance. Hard-pressed BOAC announced stiff reductions in operating expenses, including staff cuts and the elimination of such unprofitable routes as the one to the east coast of South America...
...armed herself with a switchblade knife. She was just in time. While walking home a fortnight ago, she was attacked by a man who, she suspected, was a rapist, and she fought him off with her knife. Result: the police arrested him-and her. Reason: New York's stiff Sullivan Law bans switchblade knives. Up for trial this week, Victim Del Fava, 27, faces a maximum penalty of seven years in jail and a $1,000 fine...