Word: stiffening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laced Darkness. To make sure that it does not fall, the U.S. maintains in South Viet Nam a Special Forces military mission intended to stiffen Diem's 170,000-man army and to give anti-guerrilla instruction to selected Ranger units. A TIME correspondent last week reported on the work of a five-man U.S. group at Trung Lap, a village only 20 miles northwest of Saigon. With a force of four Ranger companies-two in training, two in the field-and a detachment of Civil Guards, the U.S. mission is fighting the Viet Cong for control...
...everything goes according to form tomorrow, the Crimson can expect to lose by 10 points or more. And no one is talking about the possibility that the cuts miler Mark Mullin suffered this week in a fall will stiffen up painfully. Mullin turned in a 3:01.0 three-quarters after his injury, so he should be ready...
...mounting pressures seem only to stiffen Verwoerd. "We regard the present position as very serious," he proclaimed. "We must be willing to suffer for our nation." Why, he said wonderingly, "South Africa has done more for the natives than any other country in Africa...
...used paper: ink. Largely because of ink's stubborn presence, U.S. newspapers, which pay a near-prohibitive $134 a ton for fresh newsprint, get less than $20 a ton for used newsprint, which is repulped and pressed into a coarse grey cardboard of the sort used to stiffen the backs of scratch pads and freshly laundered shirts. If there were an economic and efficient way of removing the ink, waste paper could be used over and over again. Last week in Chicago, Marshall Field's Sun-Times and Daily News were both running on newsprint reconstituted from waste...
Throughout the South, Griffin encountered what he calls "the hate stare." Offering his seat to a white woman in a New Orleans streetcar, he watched her face stiffen into hostility. "What are you looking at me like that for?" she asked sharply, and turned away muttering, "They're getting sassier every day." Hitchhiking through Alabama, he was picked up by a white truck driver who inquired, with a leer, whether Griffin's wife had ever slept with a white man, informed him that "we're doing your race a favor to get some white blood into your...