Word: stiffs
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...British empire, on which the sun never set, that originally spread English around the world, along with tea breaks, cuffed trousers and the stiff upper lip. But when the imperial sun finally did set after World War II, the American language followed American power into the vacuum. Key reason: the language has a rare forcefulness and flexibility. Even the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary last month incorporated such Americanisms as yuppie and zilch. Explained Editor Robert Burchfield: "Our language is changing slowly, and America is leading the way now, not Britain...
...hopelessly inadequate Christian. That a honey like Roxanne could ever fall for Dane's sniveling wimp of a Gascon seems harder to believe than that Cyrano could ever see beyond that nose of his. Of the supporting cast, Donal Logue as the rightous Captain Le Bret is appropriately stiff-backed, and nuns Jane Avrich and Chalon Emmons scamper and giggle most agreeably during the last scene...
...course, there are balancing sins. Some of the more conservative characters seem awfully stiff beyond their years, such as the former radical-gone-establishment lawyer McComas (Jamie Mclnnes) and, to a lesser extent, the authoress' husband Mr. Crampton (Richard Listerud). But theirs are mostly minor errors in otherwise fairly solid performances, allowing them to play the straight man to the ridiculousness around them...
...week's end, as NASA continued to maintain a stiff upper lip about both the rocket's defects and the shuttle's future, Rogers issued a terse but devastating statement: he had advised the President that after only one week of hearings, the commission "has found that the process (of decision making leading up to Challenger's launch) may have been flawed." As a result, NASA was being asked to exclude those of its personnel involved in the launch from any further role on the investigating teams...
LAST WEEK, the Administrative Board forced two students to withdraw for a year and placed three more on disciplinary probation. These rather stiff penalties were meted out for the students' role in an escalating exchange of pranks between two rooms which finally culminated with two students, both of whom were required to withdraw, accidentally igniting some towels. Because the Ad Board meets behind closed doors, the community will never be able to judge the merits of the case...