Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...February, forsythia bloomed on Long Island, Maryland's spring peepers started to peep, and shirtsleeved New Yorkers lay on green grass in Central Park. In violent contrast, Southern Californians shoveled snow this winter for the first time in their lives, and the stiff bodies of frozen cattle broke the blades of rotary snowplows in blizzard-bound Montana...
...giant" ("Moby Dick") costing 75 cents. The quality of the paper seems amazingly good, both the type and margins are accommodating to the eye, and since the books are bound in soft paper, the reader is given a sense of intimacy and control which is hardly possible with a stiff-backed and weighty tome...
...this country." Patel did not wait for the unions to arrest Communist leaders. He started a roundup of his own. By week's end, some 1,000 Communists were crammed into already-bulging provincial jails. In the New Delhi legislature a bill was introduced which would impose stiff fines and jail sentences for strikers against essential industries, i.e., railways, postal telegraph and telephone, arms manufactures...
Actually, the competition for earning a basketball scholarship at Kentucky is pretty stiff. Each spring and summer (basketball is a year-round proposition at Kentucky), as many as some 200 eager candidates dribble in to work out with the varsity. Rupp selects about a dozen who fit his requirements as the "cool pro type." They get board, room, tuition, dry cleaning, laundry, books; $10-a-month spending money and rigid Rupp discipline. Boss Rupp, who wears brown suits because he thinks they bring good luck, is even fussy about his players having dates...
...True Love (Paramount) is a sincere but woebegone Hollywood attempt to produce a British specialty: the quiet little drama in which well-bred characters stiff-upperlip their way through an emotional crisis...