Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end Washington was alive with reports that Haig would face a stiff confirmation fight in the Senate, and that the President-elect had still not definitely offered the general the job. There were few other serious candidates. Reagan might offer the post to Weinberger, but that would leave a vacancy at Defense, or to former Secretary of the Treasury...
...celebrities have been charged, though they could be facing stiff bills for back taxes...
...Britain's most eligible bachelor, Prince Charles produces front-page palpitations every time he is seen with a marriageable young woman. Until now, however, Buckingham Palace has kept a discreetly stiff upper lip when Fleet Street attempted to handicap the Prince's love life. Thus it was highly unusual when Queen Elizabeth II through her spokesman publicly denounced London's Sunday Mirror last month for a story linking the Prince and Lady Diana Spencer, 19, the winsome blond whom many Britons expect to be the next Queen. The Sunday Mirror's response was even more unusual...
...course, Brandeis and MIT are really more like tune-up games for Harvard than anything else, a chance to iron out the wrinkles, to get the stiff knees loosened up--a chance for Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin to check out different combinations of players and to see his eighth, ninth and tenth men in game situations...
...warmth. He joshed a boy about skipping school to greet him, and prayed that kidnapers would release an eleven-year-old girl being held for ransom near Karlsruhe. The size of the crowds was modest only by John Paul's usual standards. More than half a million braved stiff breezes for a youth Mass at Munich's Oktoberfest grounds...