Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Boston University and M.I.T. have excellent crews this season, and will offer stiff competition to the Crimson sailers. Hit hard by the graduation of its three top men, the Crimson must count heavily on the development of sophomore Steve Bello, and the performance of returning lettermen Dave Stookey, Dave Gantz, Tim Prince, and Guy Carden...
...this will probably be only good enough to give Dartmouth a good stiff scare, however. The Indians may be hurtin', but they ain't about to start losing yet. In fact, the major problem in Hanover right now is getting enough rain to permit the freshmen to hold their traditional pre-game bon fire rituals...
...should get his first stiff test of the season when the Harvard runners face Cornell and Brown this Friday in a triangular meet. The highlight of the race should be the duel between Howlett and Machooka, but a Brown team that has the greater depth than Harvard or Cornell might well win the overall race...
...been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae." » Neville Chamberlain: "The Secre tary Bird, which you may watch at the zoo walking back and forth on stiff legs with an expression of honest purpose on its face...
Wallace dispatches a team of anthropologists and wives to study the perfect sexual harmony that exists among 200 noble savages on the Three Sirens islands. The islanders all seem to have read Choctaw editions of Havelock Ellis and orate in stiff English on the wonders of coeducational outhouses ("the one true democracy"), the Social Aid Hut where husbands suffering from frigid wives can go for relief, and the absurdity of necking. The invaders represent a spectrum of heterosexual appetites and respond to the natives' wisdom according to their own maladies. One shows the bored natives dirty pictures, another dances...