Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Levy stiff penalties on mine operators in violation of the safety provisions, up to and including a fine of $5,000 and a six-month jail sentence...
...deacon of Miami's First Presbyterian Church, Lee stoutly insists that there is no better rehabilitation than a stiff dose of churchgoing. To enforce his sentence, he requires each offender to write a weekly letter describing what he learned from the Sunday sermon. The effect of the preaching is sometimes questionable. One 15-year-old girl wrote what Chronicles 1:29 meant to her: "We are time watchers and punch clocks." Another boy complained: "This lesson I didn't understand at all. I did not know what he was talking about...
...wage controls and a skimpy national budget-the buying binge continued. Instead of falling by about 1½% this year as the government intended, consumer spending seems likely to rise by 2%. Three weeks ago, that prospect prompted the Board of Trade to toughen the country's already stiff controls over installment buying of autos, TV sets, furniture and other durable goods...
...about five minutes, everybody breathed -- standing on their tiptoes with their arms held high over their heads when they inhaled, collapsing down to the floor when they exhaled. Then, with Ted leading the way, the group formed into a circle and began to march around the room, alternately very stiff and very relaxed. Over the loud-speaker, a minuette began to play--and at that point, the first performance of Cambridge's Free Dance Theatre began in earnest...
...love her and then marries the wrong one. Eleanor Lindsay, who plays the part, makes a stunning and no doubt difficult transition from a wide-eyed girl who recoils at the thought of sex to a sad housewife married to a bitter, unsuccessful poet. Miss Lindsay seems somewhat stiff and unsure of herself at times, but with a few more performances this should disappear...