Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intimidated. He beat the Communist leaders in Poland. He's denounced the IRA in Ireland, rebuked leaders for human rights violations in places like Brazil, and chastised the Supreme Court on abortion while just a few blocks down the Mall." The Vatican could face a stiff backlash. After the 1993 speech in Sicily, two church bombs exploded in Rome and a priest was gunned down in his church...
...measure empowers city officers and inspectors from the city's Licensing Commission and Health and Hospitals and Inspectional Services departments to enforce its provisions, and provides for stiff fines for vendors caught stealing tobacco to minors...
Resistance to the group's ideas has been stiff...
...greed," said Byatt, "simply because he has a divorce to pay for and has just had all his teeth redone." The dental work in question was done in the U.S. at a cost of $30,000, an expense that did little to endear Amis to a nation where a stiff upper lip is often an involuntary reaction to periodontal pain and government-issue dentists...
...They've improved since the fall," Roiter said. "That could have to do with the constant stiff competition they face. All players on their team are going to have a tough match every time they play...