Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distance from the Hygiene Building to the nearest stiff drink will be shortened today when Clark's Sea Grill opens at its new location on Holyoke Street. With everything from fish to partly clothed women for murals, it will cater specially to students...
Callahan isn't quite sure just how the Crimson squad will emerge from this stiff competition. Poor weather has confined its practice to the Briggs Cage "dustbowl." Furthermore, he points out that "it's pretty hard to tell anything about the squad before it has played in actual competition." He does admit that the club will be out to avenge the terrible 31-0 beating they got from the Tigers last year and to win the traditional Yale game...
...When the stiff-necked British Medical Association boycotted the miners' society, Aneurin Bevan got his chance to fight. "It was wicked, the way those fellows stood in the way of our getting health services to the people," he says, "but we won through...
Published in two installments, Barth's essay might disappoint those who were looking for a stiff workout in theology. Instead he served up a chattily informal account of his past ten years (even including an operation for hernia). But among the trivia are passages of larger interest...
...career as a wine salesman, Garrick wheedled his way on to the stage. He was an almost immediate success. At the age of 24 he revolutionized English acting with his performance of Colley Gibber's version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Where his predecessors had declaimed in stiff and grandiloquent periods, he developed an easy-flowing, natural and rant-free style. They had recited, but he acted...