Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's diverse array of recruits will also face stiff competition from last season's NCAA-experienced starters...
...Crimson's diverse array of recruits will also face stiff competition from last season's NCAA-experienced starters...
Until recently, Kennedy's style had been stiff-necked in the extreme. So far, Stanford has offered to return $1.35 million to the government. Kennedy scoffed at resignation in interviews during Stanford's spring commencement. But six weeks of consultations and soul-searching convinced him of the folly of such a stubborn posture. As David Hamburg, a Stanford trustee and president of the Carnegie Corporation, put it, "He decided as a sort of symbol of the troubles, he'd better step aside, even though he loved the position and the university...
...share with friends. Neither has a taste for fancy clothes, expensive cars or other such trappings of success. In fact, Sayles regularly travels to New York City and back by bus, often writing on a lined yellow pad while waiting in the station for his ride. Just another working stiff on his commute...
...contended, a quarter of the males are homosexual. When these allegations, made in a 1987 interview for a book about women, were published in Britain's Sunday Observer, Cresson, 57, claimed that it was "not fair play" to pull an old conversation "out of a drawer." Throughout England, stiff upper lips quivered. "They don't call Paris 'Gay Paree' for nothing, you know," retorted the tabloid...