Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fired by government decree. As the underground resistance movement grows, more and more of their students are arrested and disappear. Rumor has it that a certain specified number of military officers' sons and daughters will henceforth be admitted to the University automatically, regardless of their scores on the stiff admissions rest. This should ensure the presence of a vigilant and militant pro-government faction in the University and, ultimately, a reactionary educated group to take power in the government...
...From the Madding Crowd is cinematic melodrama, then Schlesinger makes the most of it. It's a worth-while evening--and do plan an entire evening for it--that's even worth the rather stiff prices, which apparently are being offered in Cinerama...
...only amounted to 24,117 cars. By contrast, B.M.C. sold 20,000 minis alone during the first four days of this year's auto show. But mindful of the Japanese catalogue of successes that includes radios, cameras, motorcycles and shipbuilding, European and British manufacturers are girding themselves for stiff competition from the East...
...McCurdy pointed out yesterday, the team went to Dartmouth last Thursday without sophomore stars Keith Colburn and Roy Shaw. "It found out at breakfast Friday in Hanover that Tim McLoone wouldn't run, and Doug Hardin told me before the race that his leg was stiff and he'd just as soon not run if we didn't need him," McCurdy said...
...Ethiopia and has eaten lobster steaks from the Red Sea. He is very black, though his features are Caucasian. He is quite fat because he is always eating; he says he can never get enough to eat. As he is in some measure resigned to his corpulence he walks stiff-legged and pigeon-toed, which makes his belly and breats jiggle with every step...