Word: stiffs
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...nursery school, but something staid and serious instead—something like “Pre-Primary Preparatory Education.” The rugs and water tables of yore have been replaced with desks, nap time with tests, and hugs and Ginger the pet bunny with grades and a stiff pat on the back. I doubt many of us could have survived such an atmosphere, let alone get in to such a rigorous program. I know I couldn?...
...Italy, the granddaughter of Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and her tiny right-wing Social Alternative party are among the main attractions. Mussolini, whose party polled just over 1% in last year's European elections, trashes the euro and wants to bring back her grandfather's outlawed stiff-armed salute. Last week, she was on hunger strike in a rickety white trailer in a central Rome parking lot to protest her exclusion from next month's regional elections for allegedly submitting fraudulent ballot signatures. She claims she's being singled out in a system where signatures are rarely all authentic...
More often than not, Princeton guards found their passes to once-open teammates intercepted by Harvard guards sprinting into the passing lanes and heading the opposite direction. The Crimson’s stiff denial and help-side defense prevented the Tigers from establishing an offensive rhythm in a half-court...
...says Kathy matter-of-factly about taking the first step toward becoming a donor. The restrained, almost detached style, says the author, springs from his international roots and the similarities between his dual homes: "The two cultures overlapped. Home Counties England of the 1960s had very much the same stiff upper lip, restrained manners, social conformity feel of Japan. That's partly what infuses my writing." But behind the facade of the ordinary is the extraordinary trauma of his hometown. The atomic bomb was hardly spoken of in Nagasaki when Ishiguro was a boy, but now his conversation is peppered...
...diverse backgrounds foments class conflict among Cruikshank’s characters. Every word from the street-smart Somerville native Barbara Brouillard, a Boston Police Department detective, seethes with the disdain—and desire—for the life the MacInnesses lead. Meanwhile, the MacInnes family members’ stiff speech betrays their sheltered upbringing...