Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While tobacco advertising may be tightening up, the stiff but self-made restrictions on the advertising of whisky may be loosening. Last week one member of the National Association of Broadcasters said that it would ignore the NAB prohibition of whisky commercials. The dissenting member was none other than the prestigious radio station of the New York Times, WQXR. Soon after it pronounced that all the booze is fit to broadcast (after 10:30 p.m., anyhow) Muirhead's Scotch and Schenley bought all the available time slots, worth up to $70,000 a year...
...Supreme Court's unanimous ruling was based on a conflict between Sears, Roebuck and Chicago's Stiffel Co., the originator of the pole lamp. Stiff el's sales sagged after Sears, in 1957, brought out an identical pole lamp that sold for about half the price; the company took the matter to court. A federal court found Sears guilty of unfair competition, not because of a patent infringement but under an Illinois common law that forbids exact copying of another's goods. In fact, ruled the court, Stiffel's pole lamp was not really unique...
...paper Honey sometimes scores hilariously. "The waiters looked as if they'd staggered out of some old dark hole," she remarks, sizing up a venerable London restaurant. "They creaked and wobbled and limped and trembled under their loads, their turkey-gobbler necks rising pink and plucked from their stiff winged collars. The genuinely old-fashioned bad service that was being meted out impartially to us all was instantly recognizable as the real thing: a subtle, sophisticated Old World incompetence we Americans can never hope to emulate, the best our rustic efforts can produce being a superficial smart-alec rudery...
...beautifully the confused horror of her relationship with her step-father. Better than any of the other actors, she is able to lose herself in a memory, ignoring the astonished eyes of both the rehearsal cast and the audience. Above all, she has amazing control over her body; her stiff shivers in the hat shop red-light scene convey all the repulsiveness of her step-father's shameless sexuality...
...campaign ... is damn near one hundred per cent effective, and the town is in a real hurt. Police cruisers have started following us everywhere we go. We have to stop hitching rides, since anyone who picks us up can be sure of getting a ticket and a stiff fine. We have no car. Repairs have not yet begun on the community center building, but we have at last found a Negro contractor who is not afraid to take...