Word: stiffening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty Council voted yesterday to stiffen Sophomore Standing requirements, increasing the Advanced Placement examination score students must achieve from...
...gasoline where the cars are not." Shifting of supplies has alleviated problems for some areas while worsening them for others. Two weeks ago, 21 states were experiencing gas lines. At week's end, the department again modified allocation rules to limit supplies for new stations and to stiffen standards by which agricultural and defense users get gasoline...
...with Taiwan, and it may have to provide assurances that it will not try to assert its claims on the island by force. Peking may eventually meet these conditions, but so far its leaders are unwilling to discuss them in explicit terms. Whenever the subject comes up, the Chinese stiffen, saying Taiwan is an "internal matter" in which "China brooks no interference...
...effort to stiffen Assad's resolve to stay on in Lebanon, Iraq's radical regime offered last week to send its own troops to the Golan Heights. Assad, who has quarreled bitterly with the Iraqis, was bound to reject their dubious offer. His determination to solve his Lebanese dilemma was probably hardened by the success of the Camp David peace talks, which foreshadowed a separate peace between Egypt and Israel. Such a development would leave Israel free to concentrate its massive firepower on Syria and other "rejectionist" Arab states...
...days to get through to Chiang K'ai-shek and then only with the help of the sainted widow of Dr. Sun Yat-sen one of Madame Chiang K'ai-shek's older sisters. It was she who insisted the dictator receive me and then, to stiffen me the dainty lady wrote, "... report conditions as frankly and fearlessly as you did to me. If heads must come off, don't be squeamish about...