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This suggestion did not meet with approval from Walter J. Rate '39, chairman of the English Department, who said his department was considering no further action. Its graduate revisions last March set "a stiff, rapid pace" for the degree, and "anticipated" the Dean's proposals...
...late Anne O'Hare McCormick described him thus: "He is straight, strong, taut as a watch spring, thin as a young tree, but tranquil and tranquilizing -a Gothic figure whose vestments fall about him in Gothic folds, whose long hands are raised in Gothic gestures, both stiff and graceful...
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 67, pro-Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the church's guardian of dogma), is a stiff-backed expert in canon law and one of the Vatican's more reactionary figures. He is handicapped by near-blindness...
...special envoy rushed down from Paris, ticked off to Touré the dreaded list of things to come. All French public servants, technicians and army units would leave within three months. Financial aid would cease, and Guinea's exports (coffee, bananas, bauxite) would be subject to the same stiff tariffs as those of other foreign countries. As the French tricolor vanished from the land, Touré began to hope that, having slammed the door, he would not find it irrevocably locked behind him. He hailed France as "a friend and generous brother," called for economic negotiations. Though some Frenchmen...
Author Leon Wolff, a World War II airman, draws a memorable picture of stiff, inarticulate Field Marshal Haig, who racked up about 450,000 British casualties (some 150.000 killed) in five months in order to capture a few miles of mud. Haig was an old-fashioned cavalryman who was mentally saddlebound in the kind of war in which a good deep hole was a soldier's best friend. One of his dictums alone should have disqualified him for command: Bullets, he said, had "little stopping power against the horse...