Word: stiffeners
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Raised Voices. There was no doubt that competition for the readers' small change and advertisers' dollars was getting stiffen One symptom was a rash of big ads in Manhattan dailies, not so much to sell millions of newspaper readers as to impress a thousand or so admen now making up 1949 budgets...
...Congressmen were impressed, however. They could see the necessity of getting some kind of aircraft program started immediately. Some of them still saw a big Air Force as a substitute for the generally unpalatable universal military training bill, and wondered whether it wasn't possible to stiffen U.S. defenses with machinery instead of men, particularly in an election year...
...spines because of James Burnham's new book (The Struggle for the World-John Day; $3) published just five days after President Truman's historic message to Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Burnham's purpose is neither to create nor allay shudders, but to stiffen the national spine...
...That's the trouble," sighed Astaire. "People sometimes stiffen up when they dance with...
...delicacy arose from an inhibition familiar to all Communist leaders: Frachon must not let his workers' drive for higher wages disrupt Russia's worldwide grand strategy. For example, anything approaching a Communist-led general strike in France would force a premature showdown in the French coalition government and stiffen the West's resistance against Russian demands at next month's Moscow Foreign Ministers Conference...