Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koci Xoxe met the ultimate end of all unregenerate purgees. Once the general secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, Xoxe was shot by a firing squad of the same secret police he had once organized. Also convicted of being "plotters against popular democracy," three other pro-Tito Albanians got stiff prison terms...
Ordained to Praise. The woodcuts, mostly book illustrations and chapter headings, betrayed Gill's lack of academic training: the drawing, especially of human figures, was awkward, stiff and anatomically inept. But the prints also showed the order and clarity of Gill's mind and the precision of his craft; they had the decisive simplicity that characterized all his work. Beyond that, even his woodcuts of devils seemed to attest Gill's joy in life -and therefore to praise God. "Man," Gill wrote, "is that part of creation which can praise his creator. Because...
Room 1O2L, a short walk down an immaculate corridor, is one of the most cheerful-seeming places in the hospital. Divided by stiff brown curtains into examination booths, it rings on Friday mornings with the voices of children. A little boy with a Tommy gun shoots sparks at a white-coated doctor, and a plump little girl cradles her doll. In a corner, a nurse in a starched white uniform peers through a microscope and makes a click-click sound with a small, sharp-voiced machine. She is counting in some child's blood the deadly white cells...
Despite the barriers to its pictures abroad, Hollywood could take heart in another statistic: 72% of the feature films on the world's screens were U.S.-made. The U.S. share of showings dipped lowest (47%) in the Far East, where stiff competition was offered by British distributors and a revived Japanese film industry. It was highest, at 98%, in British Honduras. The rate in the U.S. itself...
...scared--scared right out of its civil liberties. The older faculty men, secure in tenure appointments, are just worried. Certain faculties, notably those of the law and medical schools, are not even worried. But the younger faculty members and the graduate students, especially in the physics department are scared stiff. "We're afraid to open our mouths on any idea left of Wilsonian liberalism," one physics instructor says. Other young instructors have admitted that this attitude is wide-spread in the science departments. (Little information is available in other fields in the university; it is well known, however, that although...