Word: stiff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from rich to poor. They note that Shultz proposed no changes in the stated tax rate on capital gains or in estate and gift taxes. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills says that the proposals do not go far enough, and the package is sure to face a stiff fight when the committee takes it up later this year...
...which has been plagued by horrendous starts the last couple of weeks, got a good jump at the beginning of the race. Williams came out a little ahead, of everyone else, but Radcliffe was tight with the rest of the pack. Despite the good start, the 'Cliffe with the stiff headwind keeping the pack together, didn't take the lead until the 500-meter mark...
...include consciously symbolist works with titles like Night, Day, Love and Truth. Carefully composed and painted, these are likely to strike us now as overly flat and academic. The symbolist aura of the time when they were painted has faded, and the preliminary sketches appeal much more than the stiff finished paintings...
...career--the death of an earlier mistress in 1909 had been captured in a Munch-like oil full of looming and vertiginous space. Through the series, the curved, living lines of the woman's face grow harsh and geometrical, until a final version shows the corpse, bony and stiff, with the bedclothes around it indicated by a chaos of loose lines...
Once under way after a hectic and confused start, the wind put the clamps on any attempt by anyone to move away from the pack. The stiff cross-breeze churning the water into an unmanageable chop for the first 400, kept everyone bunched pretty tightly together...