Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldthwait Cup at Yale, coach Fred Cabot's varsity lightweight crew weathered a stiff headwind and very hot weather to defeat Princeton by two and a half lengths and Yale by four...
...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...
...harden his point, Blough went on to announce that U.S. Steel would forthwith trim 12% to 14% from the prices of some types of wire and rods. Reason: stiff competition from cut-price European producers, whose steel shipments to the U.S. will exceed 6,000,000 tons this year...
...reading given at Lowell House is vibrant, if occasionally stiff and over stylized. Surprisingly, Mr. Schwartz himself is the weakest member of the cast, given to mumbling his lines. Sandra Robbins is superlative as the mother, Carola Dibbell sympathetically portrays the deaf aunt, and Mary Breasted is often arresting as Ellen...
...Crimson sophomore, meanwhile, took it easy, going over 6'6 1/4" on his first try against Holy Cross, and then quiting. He explained apologetically that he felt stiff. Pardee speaks of 6'6 1/4" with a tinge of scorn, as if it were something most high jumpers could do with their feet tied together...