Word: stiff
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...known as snak). The non-Aryan Finns are of nomadic Magyar stock and are caricatured as somnolent, introverted and dour. The isolated Norwegians have a reputation for being tough, brave and simple. The Swedes, who were greatly influenced in the 19th century by Germany, are thought of as stiff, shrewd and neurotic. If a Norwegian invents something, according to one theory, a Swede will patent it, and a Dane will be in charge of promotion...
German importers cast baleful eyes up on slashed bundles of brittle, short-fibered U.S. cotton that sometimes contains a large amount of twigs, leaves and rocks. Nearly half the U.S. cotton shipments to Bremen go into arbitration, which often results in stiff price penalties for the U.S. shippers...
...Stiff? Buckley contemptuously dismissed Reform Challenger Bingham, 50, as a "punk" and a "big stiff." At one point, he chortled, "Jonathan-now what kind of a name is that for The Bronx? And look at his middle name-Brewster-isn't that pathetic?" Bingham indeed seemed out of place in The Bronx, which in considerable part is a low-income land of garment workers and small shopkeepers, of tenements and Bronx cheer. A slim, silver-haired, impeccably tailored product of Groton and Yale, Bingham has been for the past three years a U.S. representative to the United Nations...
...COIN project was first suggested in December 1962 by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's office, which gave it to the Navy for administrative development. The Navy came up with some stiff specifications for such a plane. It must have a top speed of 316 m.p.h., be able to linger over a target for two hours, clear a 50-ft. barrier on takeoff within 800 ft. of its starting point, operate out of sod fields, off gravel roads and, when equipped with pontoons, from water. It would require two engines so that it could still fly if one were...
Watershed of Manners. The story is not included in A Backward Glance-and not surprisingly. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton were separated by more than several stiff drinks and the span of a generation. They stood on opposite sides of what she came to think of as the Great Social Divide-World War I-and no effort could reach across that watershed of manners...