Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...club has discarded the traditional spring vacation trip to Bermuda and substituted a Southern tour which schedules five games in seven days. The team will face some of the toughest clubs in the South, including the University of Virginia, undefeated last year. The trip, along with providing the stiff competition the team needs, will re-establish Harvard's recently sagging rugby relations with the Southern schools...
Fanny ran for 888 performances and made Merrick and his investors $847,726.74 clear profit on an investment of $275,000. Merrick was in, and he meant to stay in. With a shrewdness and energy that scared his rivals stiff, he moved to consolidate and exploit his position...
...little island. Even so, a poverty-ridden troupe of English Shakespeare players still continues its work, bringing the Bard to the provinces. But India no longer has time for the old gentilities, and wherever the itinerant Shakespeareans try to move their goods (wallah is Hindi for peddler), they meet stiff sales resistance. Indians, like most of the rest of the world, have forsaken the theater for the film, and the cheapest movie actress means more to them than the most lyric Lear. The once-prominent troupe, reduced by death and penury to mother, father and ingenue daughter, stops play acting...
...large-capacity ships" as prototypes for modernizing the Merchant Marine through standardization of ship construction. On the basis of a Coast Guard condemnation of safety conditions aboard the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle, which burned and sank off Florida with a loss of 90 lives last year, the President proposed stiff new safety measures for liners touching in U.S. ports...
...only being mauled militarily but doing badly in the political war as well. Until last year, when the U.S. began its massive intervention, they had skillfully nurtured peasant sympathy. The new military pressures forced the Viet Cong to raise taxes, broaden the conscription of rural youths, and make other stiff demands on their peasant converts. The buildup of U.S. forces and the pacification of rural areas, Tien Phong noted, has, "practically speaking, created great difficulty for the political struggle and caused a number of comrades who are not thoroughly imbued with the policy and strategy of the party...