Word: stiffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Board will debate the merits of the tunnel. They will eventually recommend to the City Council whether or not Cambridge should grant Harvard permission to dig under a city street. Even if the board recommends granting such permission, Harvard’s tunnel plan will have to overcome the stiff opposition of city councillors, who have final say on the matter...
...physical game where many of the players lost their footing, and Harvard seemed to have lost its touch, timely baskets and stiff defense propelled the Crimson...
Designers are not impervious to the travails of the working stiff. But that compassion usually takes the form of donating clothes to actors and agonizing over what to wear at the growing parade of awards shows. In his menswear collection for Emporio Armani in Milan last week, GIORGIO ARMANI took his designer social conscience a step further, even delivering a paean to the proletariat. "I want to pay homage to...the dignity of the workers with their simplicity and straightforwardness," he declared after a show he said was inspired by soldiers, factory workers and miners. The clothes displayed military details...
Having taken the territory, Haji Zahir's men withdrew from the valley, leaving several of their own dead. But that night the al-Qaeda fighters sneaked back and slipped written messages into the stiff hands of the corpses. A commander named Anatullah found them a day later as his men carried the bodies out on woven beds. "We are Muslims, you are Muslims," he recalls the words on the notes. "Don't fight us. We are waiting for American troops to attack, and then you will see who wins...
...latter include the somber and acerbic hymn of hate to the boredom French lefty intellectuals always attribute to respectable middle-class life, Sunday, 1888-1890. (Does the worthy proletariat ever suffer from ennui? Apparently not.) Nothing is happening. A young husband in a stiff jacket and striped pants is poking the fireplace in a desultory way. His wife stares out the window, her back to us. The folds and pleats of her costume, intensely formal, suggest a caryatid--but a caryatid with nothing at all to support and nothing whatever to do. An equally bored-looking cat, if cats...