Word: stiffeners
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...this way we will help stiffen the spirit of the people of Clinton and people like them all over the South. We will also help stiffen...
...union countercharged that a group of fly-by-night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts. They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books. To fight back. Dubinsky demanded that union and management stiffen their policing of contract abuses, slap automatic fines on chiselers. Management said that the present loose policing methods are good enough. Furthermore, the union was not always an aggressive policeman. When the I.L.G.W.U. nabbed a chiseler, it sometimes let him off easy for fear that he would fold...
...shoving crowds bellied up to endless rows of benches to adore nearly 100 varieties of dog. The air bristled with ammoniac fumes. To prepare the quadruped idols for the worshiping throng, handlers laved them in exotic ceremonies. They rubbed chalk into the hides of sheep dogs and collies to stiffen and brighten the white areas. Some anointed the beasts with such hair beautifiers as Helene Curtis Spray Net and Adorn. One high priestess to an Airedale basted her dog with beer and brilliantine to stiffen and shine its coat. Terrier handlers carefully plucked hair from their dogs' legs...
Several corrections for the present imbalance could be adopted. Primarily, the natural sciences could stiffen their requirements and raise the present standards for summa candidates. The social sciences might consider a slight liberalization of their standards for a summa, although rigid requirements are preferable to lenient ones...
CUBAN-SOVIET SUGAR DEAL will clean out last of island's surplus this year, may stiffen world prices. Cuba is selling 200,000 long tons of raw sugar to U.S.S.R. at 5.85? a lb., or about ¼ cent higher than U.S. buyers are paying for Cuban crop. Total price: $26 million...