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When Hoover and 2,500 other citizens left the tomb* after the annual ceremony, stillness descended on the scene, broken only by the precise footfalls of the ramrod-stiff sentry on his everlasting guard: he took 29 paces before the tomb, halted, about-faced, and resumed his march...
...Stiff Penalty. Such rousing football is typical of teams coached by Paul ("Bear") Bryant. (He played that way himself in the early '30s when he was the "wrong end" on a fine Alabama team that had its headlines hogged by a glue-fingered pass-grabber named Don Hutson.) Even on Monday afternoons, when other squads are still resting from their weekend's labors, the Aggies butt heads on their Brazos River practice fields...
...early last year, a refugee from the high-pressure Kentucky basketball barony of Adolph Rupp, when he put on a recruiting drive that started other Southwest Conference coaches screaming: "Foul!" Conference officials promptly blew the whistle on Bear's overenthusiastic salesmanship and set the Aggies back with a stiff penalty: two years' probation and orders not to appear in any bowl games...
...fighter so that it could be delivered to the Air Force. Pilot Smith put on his flying gear, got into the cockpit, checked instruments and controls. He noticed that the fore-and-aft stick movement, which raises or lowers the nose of the aircraft in flight, was slightly stiff, but he thought nothing of it at the time...
Today chiefly freshmen work out in the building in attempts to pass their Physical Education requirements. And Yale's idea of minimum physical competence differs greatly from that of Harvard; requirements are so stiff, in fact, that over 70% of the freshman class annually fails one or more test...