Word: stiffening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrate with fireworks while rockets are crushing freedom in other parts of the world? What a time for us to deserve a Congress like this. We need a Patrick Henry to stir our blood, a George Washington to stiffen our backbone...
...grass. But overall the movie maintains high energy. There is one scene of true inspiration. At the end of the 6 o'clock news, the anchor man signs off and sits staring, smile firmly fixed, waiting for the fadeout and credits. Nothing happens. Soon the smile begins to stiffen at the edges, grow nervous. Gamely, still in character, the anchor man shuffles script pages on his desk, making official-looking marks in the upper right corners. Still nothing. His composure never crumbles, just begins to crack. Smile still in place, if just a little askew, the anchor man starts...
...competion should stiffen a bit tomorrow when the Crimson shirks its Ivy League opponents and runs in the Greater Boston Championships. Northeastern and Boston College appear to be the teams most likely to challenge Crimson city supremacy. After the Boston contest, several Crimson thinclads will journey to Philadelphia Friday to vie in the annual Penn Relays Carnival...
...operators see no quick way out of their bind. "We need 50? a lb. to break even," says Bill Webster, president of the Colorado Cattle Feeders Association, "but at just that level the consumer seems to stiffen. We can't sell there." In similar circumstances executives in other businesses might elect to keep then" products off the market until prices rose. But the feeders cannot readily do that: the critters go on gobbling expensive corn, put on still more pounds-and packers pay less per pound for overweight steers than they do for pleasingly plump ones, because the additional...
...some trouble serving its fragmented local area; it is not only the sole morning daily in the District of Columbia, its suburban circulation makes it the largest morning paper in Maryland and the largest paper-period-in Virginia. Publisher Katharine Graham has not let the rigors of Watergate coverage stiffen her sense of humor: "Wherever I go, someone inevitably declares that this has been a banner year for journalism and the Post. That's true, though in much the same sense that tropical storm Agnes was a great time for disaster agencies...