Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson is the Crimson's leader in the weight events. He'll be meeting stiff competition in defending NCAA champ John Flore of Boston College. Top contender in the discus is Eagle sophomore Jim Cavanaugh...
...change established patterns of ten, twelve, 30 or 40 years overnight." Gary's police make little effort to do so. Two Democratic Governors since 1961 have been just as reluctant to tamper with the powerful county machine that has guaranteed them the margin of victory against stiff Republican opposition...
...never up, and most of the city's celebrated naughty nighteries have become intolerably cheap and outrageously expensive. Yet as far as the travel guides are concerned, Paris is, was, and ever will be the gayest city in the world, while London is a stuffy place filled with stiff upper lips, bad food and sensible shoes...
...date for the appearance of the new afternoon paper, the World Journal, but adamant labor unions caused them to postpone their plans indefinitely. Though New York's unions are among the strongest and best-paid in the U.S. newspaper business, they showed no signs of compromising their stiff demands. Informed that they would lose roughly 2,000 members as a result of the merger, they insisted on the highest possible severance pay and dismissal of employees on a basis of strict seniority. At one point, the Guild, which represents editorial employees, even demanded that all its members be kept...
...direction, too, seemed to go by the Brechtian book--stiff postures, rasping harangues, a loud sound track, slogan-scrawled set, and slides...