Word: stiffs
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...just about midday on a busy street in Hanoi last week, a three-car convoy pulled up to the sidewalk that runs along Truc Bach Lake and disgorged a small group of Americans. Leading the pack was a tour guide with a head of white hair, a stiff gait and enormous Ray-Ban sunglasses. "Here it is, ladies and gentlemen!" John McCain announced as he paced over to the modest concrete monument that commemorates the day in October 1967 when a Vietnamese missile shot down his plane and he was pulled from the lake by an irate mob. And unless...
...Braving stiff winds that threatened to topple their multilingual signs and banners, nearly 200 Cantabrigians rallied on the steps of City Hall yesterday, asking the City Council to support extending the right to vote in School Committee elections to immigrants...
...what do we do? everyone knows the planet is in bad shape, but most people are resigned to passivity. Changing course, they reason, would require economic sacrifice and provoke stiff resistance from corporations and consumers alike, so why bother? It's easier to ignore the gathering storm clouds and hope the problem magically takes care of itself...
...extraterrestrial involvement in its disappearance. The modern lack of unclaimed land led Fowler to take over a few patches of Mankato, specifically a teacher's office at Mankato West High School. A great deal of air space was also declared to be the property of the Kisone Republic. A stiff tariff was imposed upon people entering the office, but it proved hard to maintain...
...This just proves that many of the preconceived notions of Al Gore have been stiff and boring," said Gore Press Secretary Chris Lehane to the Post. "He in fact has a very rich and well-rounded background--artist, athlete, and academic...