Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...region south west of Moscow was ignominiously photographed with flour he had smuggled out in his pants. In the North Caucasus, peasants raising their own livestock on private plots were denounced for buying or stealing almost 100,000 lbs. of feed grain. Restaurant managers and waiters were threatened with stiff penalties for serving over-ample portions of bread - "the holy of holies" as a newspaper called it - which they scoop up when the meal is over and sell to private animal-raisers...
...sell out willingly. To them, big companies spell the organization-man way of life. "Exciting" and "challenging" are the words they use to describe their own careers, and they rightly believe that there is plenty of room for the small manufacturer with a good idea-no matter how stiff the competition. Besides, the big man in the small company usually draws a handsome salary and expense account even when his firm does no better than break even...
...Bryan Price: the International 5-0-5 Class world sailing championship; in a stiff breeze off Larchmont, N.Y. Australian Price handled his 16-ft. centerboard Sundowner as though it was wearing a motor, blew U.S. Air Force Lieut. Henry Schefter into second place, and whipped 52 other contestants from eight countries...
When the first U.S. savings and loan association was founded in Frankford, Pa. in 1831, its strait-laced directors levied stiff fines on members who got drunk at meetings. Today's savings and loan associations have a somewhat different problem: they have grown almost too fast for their own good. The industry's 6,277 associations in 50 states serve 35.5 million U.S. savers (average account: $2,499) and make 46% of all home-mortgage loans in the U.S., nearly three times the number made by commercial banks. Next month the total assets of the industry will...
...birds. One of his recent tasks has been to prop up the Dillingham image. Earnings have slumped because of a drop in construction contracts; Brother Ben Dillingham, 46, was defeated last fall in a race for the U.S. Senate; and Henry Kaiser, particularly, has been giving the Dillinghams some stiff new island competition. To such challenges Lowell Dillingham brings a remarkable personal tenacity. An amateur horticulturist, he decided to grow quality apples in Hawaii, where only mediocre ones have been able to withstand the heat. When the first tree died from the heat, Lowell ordered refrigerated coils and wrapped them...