Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson coach Corey Wynn said that Dartmouth could provide stiff competition for the Yardlings. "Dartmouth usually has a tough team." Wynn said...
...furry black or gray growth covers the mash. The Koreans scrape off this "exuberant fungus," as Seel described it, and soak the loaves in brine for a month. Then they pour off the black liquid, which is soy sauce, and make the debris left in the crock into a stiff soya paste. Some Koreans eat little of the paste, but others indulge at the rate of five ounces or more...
Harvard's lightweights should be favored to defend their title in this Saturday's Sprints at Lake Quinsigamond. With all of Harvard's other boats facing very stiff competition at the Sprints, the lightweights might be Harvard's only victory...
Another close contest could develop in both the mile and two-mile runs. Princeton's Eamon Downey holds the indoor two-mile record for the Tigers, and will present a stiff challenge to the Crimson's Dave Pottetti and Tim McCloone. He will probably run the mile also, where Harvard's Royce Shaw looms as the favorite...
Such native stylistic ploys, like poetry, suffer dreadfully even in the best of translations, and this one, by Barbara Bray, is much too stiff-lipped, too unbendingly British. Ultimately, what does Le Clézio in, is his decision to mirror his Life-is-shapeless-and-meaningless view in its own terms. All arbitrary mood and no movement can't help making for a dull book. "Nothing is necessary any more," concludes the non-hero cryptically as he is being buried. "But neither is anything unnecessary." That phlegmatic formulation ought to come as some sort of wan, stoical triumph...