Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder that Boutwell approached with timidity the demand, raised during the 1963 demonstrations and frequently thereafter, to put Negroes on the force. Officials of the new mayor-council government privately assured prominent Negroes that the force would be integrated. But it seemed that Negroes just couldn't pass the stiff civil service exam administered by the county Personnel Board. Encouraged by city officials, Negro businessmen organized schools to train Negroes to take the test, while the city diligently quaried officials in some 89 other Southern towns to see how they had made out with Negro cops, and even paid...
Even Communists were not sacrosanct. A pair of East German army officers were dragged from their cars and knocked about like so many imperialists. The offense was severe enough to draw a stiff protest from Pankow-one of many objections from Communist countries to China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Even Cuba's Fidel Castro, no believer in gentle Communism, denounced the Peking paranoids. "It is a sad circumstance," lamented a Havana editorial, "that the People's Republic of China has given the enemies of socialism cause for laughing and taunting." Russia weighed in with...
...addition, it ran farms, dealt in antiques and trafficked in drugs. But perhaps its biggest racket was protection. If the bribe was right, UDBA could hush up crimes or fix sentences for defendants facing stiff penalties. In fact, UDBA was not above framing...
...comes to the mechanics, nobody is quite as German as the Germans . . . They've got a very special kind of inability. They can't relax and take it easy. They do everything with painful thoroughness. As you may have noticed, that makes the average German a little stiff. But it also makes the average German a much better than average mechanic...
After a few stiff drinks, he kicks the turtle and punches the parrot for pure cussedness-like a bad boy just begging for a beating. When he doesn't get one, he gives the old girl a lusty whack on what follows her around. Poor Pina, delighted to have a man around the house, mistakes insult for interest. But after Adolfo gratuitously sneers at her friends ("I'm a cut above the lot of you") and falls down drunk in her backyard, Pina's patience runs out, and she tells him what a useless mess...