Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Immediate freeze" advocates say that is what the referendum stiff calls for. In the final deliberations on the floor Rep. Michael J. Barrett argued that "the spirit of the resolution is vastly more significant than the letter." He said that by approving the referendum, Massachusetts voters would be "telling the President he is going too far." Another freeze-supporter, a member of the Council for Nuclear Weapons Freeze, explained this week, "I talked to the woman who wrote the language for the Wisconsin vote and she said that [a freeze] is what she meant...
...most recent presidential contest, held in July 1981, was so blatantly engineered for a Marcos victory that it was boycotted not only by radical leftist opponents of the regime, but also by the coalition of moderate opposition groups whose primary goal is simply the restoration of democracy. Despite stiff penalties for non-participation in the election, approximately half of the country's voters supported the boycott...
...Madison police department and some city council members up in arms. Various punitive and restrictive measures are under consideration, including a proposal that would subject skateboarders who are weaving suspiciously to a Breathalyzer test, the same one given to Wisconsin's automobile drivers. In Madison, it seems, some stiff fines may soon await stiff skateboarders. While critics of the proposed crackdown say that nobody can ride a skateboard while drunk, it appears that some young people have been trying their, ah, level best...
...soften references in high school history textbooks to Japan's aggression before and during World War II. The Japanese invasion of China in 1937, for example, became a mere "advance." Passages describing the fall of Nanking seemed to suggest that Japanese atrocities had been provoked by stiff Chinese resistance, and the Korean national uprising against Japanese colonial rule in 1919 was "mob violence...
Elizabethan language being what it is, it is unavoidable that the audience emerge from any production of this play with stiff limbs and moderately glazed eyes. But the Loeb production certainly does not inspire the question the play so frequently brings to the departing viewers' mind--why, with all the plays of Shakespeare available, the company had to pick this baggy anomaly to produce...