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Word: stiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Mayor Addonizio led the city council and some 500 protesters in a march on the statehouse in Trenton, pleading for increased state aid. Back home, the council voted to keep the museum and the libraries open for the rest of the year-but faces the prospect of a stiff tax increase if outside help is not forthcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: PROBLEMS OF A PROTOTYPE | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Doug Hardin managed a fifth place against stiff competition in the two-mile. In the mile, Royce Shaw gave up and dropped out on the seventh lap of the final after carding the fastest qualifying time. Jon Enscoe recovered too late from a mid-race lapse and finished sixth...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Cindermen Third In IC4A Meet; Benka, Nosal Win Weight Events | 3/10/1969 | See Source »

Benka, the defending IC4A champion in the shot put, will face some stiff competition from Andy Kenney of Northeastern and George Allen of St. John's. The Harvard captain sustained a slight ankle sprain in last Saturday's Big Three Meet and may be somewhat hampered in his attempt to repeat last year's victory...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Benka, Nosal Best Hope in ICAAAA; Runners to Test Villanova, Maryland | 3/8/1969 | See Source »

Yale and Princeton finished a distant third and fourth at the Heps, which predictably turned out as a stiff battle between Army and Harvard--Harvard barely winning, 541/2-511/2...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Vie In Big Three At Princeton | 3/1/1969 | See Source »

Schull, 24, is the leading rebounder for rival Eldorado, an ice cream company in Bologna. The N.B.A. it isn't; yet for American players unwilling or unable to buck the stiff competition at home, Europe is indeed an Eldorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Anyone for Pallacanestro? | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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