Word: stiff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although North Atlantic scheduled air travel was up about 9% for the first quarter of 1977, the increase would have been even greater had it not been for the stiff competition from charter airlines. Industry experts believe Pan Am's and TWA's experiments on the London route could show the scheduled carriers how to lure cost-conscious travelers without cutting into present economy-class revenues. After all, with more than a quarter of all Pan Am's seats between New York and London now being flown empty, every seat sold to a passenger who would...
...vice-president is a black woman auto worker. A tough coastal commission protects what remains of California's 840-mile coastline. A new law freezing the state's agricultural acreage will halt the untamed growth of suburbs. Smog is down 50% in the L.A. basin because of stiff fines and surveillance. Two-thirds of a projected $2.5 billion state budget surplus has been earmarked for public school financing and middle-class tax relief...
...increases sexual sensations, reduces fatigue and stimulates creative powers. Nonsense, says the Federal Government. Heavy use of cocaine can cause such side effects as sleeplessness, anxiety, hallucinations and even death. Cocaine also creates a strong psychological dependence, if not a direct physical addiction. While he endorses the relaxation of stiff penalties for smoking pot, NIDA Director Dr. Robert DuPont opposes any easing of the legal restrictions on what he regards as a far more dangerous trip. Insists DuPont: "Cocaine is not like marijuana...
What drawing is to other artists, tearing is to Motherwell. Nowhere is his balance between accident and elegance more apparent than in his big collages, with their torn and pasted edges of stiff paper, so casually exact in placement. Works like NRF Collage No. 4, 1973, have an almost Olympian detachment about them. The sense of classical well-being furnished by Motherwell's recent work reminds one of an English epicure's definition of heaven: "Eating fresh foie gras to the sound of trumpets...
...effects of this injury and his manager's reaction still linger; Carew is reluctant to leave the lineup when hurt. Last week, though he had a minor back injury, he insisted on playing. Opposing pitchers quickly took advantage of his stiff swing by throwing high, inside and, for a change, effectively. Carew's average flagged, but he played...