Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barak was no great hit with the public either. In small settings, he could be charming and light. But in crowds he bored audiences with stiff pontifications. Commentator Larry Derfner wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Barak came across as a "potato," an impression that stuck. When the candidate finally did blurt out something sexy, it was a gaffe: he said that if he'd been born Palestinian he probably would have joined a terrorist organization...
...Princeton crew will be stiff competition for the Black-and-White, as will No. 2 Villanova and No. 3 Virginia...
...said that symptoms include fever, chills, headache, rash, a stiff neck and a sense of confusion...
...often Summers who was dispatched to hot spots to prescribe tough fiscal and monetary medicine. "He's been the point man in Asia," says Kobsak Chutikul, director general of economic affairs at Thailand's Foreign Ministry, "pushing a lot of very sensitive and controversial policy measures," including stiff interest rates...
...charge of stealing a five-shilling postal order. His father's legal challenge to the Admiralty made the case a celebrated one. Terence Rattigan's 1946 play ignored the element of religious prejudice (the boy was Catholic) but mined the domestic, romantic and political realms to create a superior, stiff-upper-lip weepie. The surprise is it still works, in this beautifully judged film with Nigel Hawthorne as the righteous father and Jeremy Northam (an Olivier incarnate) as the famous barrister who takes the case. Have a good thought and a quiet cry for dear Old England...