Word: stiff
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When the war began, formerly stiff and properHarvard underwent dramatic changes. Formalcoat-and-tie dinners gave way to casual meals.Radcliffe women found themselves clearing tablesinstead to being waited on by Universityemployees...
Eisenhower asked Bradley, who would have to lead an advance on Berlin, for his views. Bradley advised that taking the city might cost an additional 100,000 casualties, which he thought "a pretty stiff price to pay for a prestige objective" -- especially since the heads of the Allied governments had already agreed on postwar occupation zones at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. Eisenhower told the British and American Chiefs of Staff, "I am the first to admit that a war is waged in pursuance of political aims," so if the chiefs decided "that the Allied effort to take Berlin...
...elsewhere in Europe, the skinheads in Germany have an impact on fringe politics. While far-right parties, such as the Republikaners, eschew violence and discourage stiff-arm salutes, they profit politically from the < undercurrent of anti-immigrant and nationalist sentiment stirred up by the neo-Nazis. The Republikaners have scored as high as 15% in local elections, and charismatic party leader Franz Schonhuber, who served in Hitler's SS, is a member of the European Parliament...
Jackie Kennedy went to Milwaukee when Senator John Kennedy announced for the crucial Wisconsin primary in the winter of 1960, and the temperature was near zero. She sat in a jammed and tacky hotel hall, stiff-backed in a short- sleeved designer sheath with delicate leather gloves up to her elbows, eyes wide and smile frozen. A New York and Washington thoroughbred in the land of < parkas and beer. She never yielded...
...Supreme Court seat he eventually offered to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a face-to-face meeting at the time -- which took place just days after Breyer had suffered two broken ribs from being struck by a car while riding his bicycle -- Clinton found the judge to be "stiff and a little too eager," says a White House official involved in the selection process. "He also came across as very much of an intellectual ! who flits from issue to issue, whereas Ruth Bader Ginsburg was dispassionate, quiet and grounded. Clinton thought you would hire Steve Breyer to be a law professor...