Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shared by the New York Times's shrewd diplomatic correspondent, James Reston. Wrote Reston: "There are many ways in which a Secretary of State can present a treaty to the Senate but the best way is to tell the Senators everything. This astonishes them, then bores them stiff, and eventually minimizes the ordeal...
Harvard, rowing into a stiff headwind that held down all the times, was never ahead despite a strong sprint bid during the last half-mile of the mile and five-sixteenths Henley distance. The Crimson's time was 7:42.4, almost five seconds slower than Princeton...
Competitions will be stiff from at least three of the entries. Tech has already shown that it can make the Crimson row hard for its shirts. Last week the Engineers finished a slim half length behind the Harvard boat...
...Crimson will play Yale this morning and Princeton this afternoon, and will have to win both matches to meet the top Southern teams at Atlantic City next week. Yesterday Yale beat the Tigers, also by a 4 to 3 score. Both teams will be pretty stiff competition...
...Roman copy of a 5th Century B.C. Greek bronze, The Wounded Amazon. The Met had picked it because it demonstrated some of the esthetic qualities the Greeks had prized most highly: the Amazon was dead calm, despite her wounds, and a fine-tuned example of physical fitness. Unlike the stiff, staring images of earlier cultures, she looked alive and in motion...