Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Boltz was a tall (5 ft. 11 in.), gaunt (140 lb.), begoggled man with close-cropped greying hair and parchmentlike skin which had a tendency to chap and crack in winter time. He had a large nose, deeply indentured cheeks, an exaggeratedly erect carriage. His walk was peculiar: legs stiff, knees high, feet thrown toward the outside and brought down hard on each heel-a modified civilian goose step. He usually wore high brown shoes of English make, white shirts with starched bosoms and cuffs. His voice (deep, resonant, deliberate) and demeanor were those of a parson...
Snow sifted last week through the mountain peaks and troughs of perpendicular little Albania. It laid a white blanket over thousands of stiff dead Italian soldiers on bleak slopes and in forested ravines from Porto Edda, where many of them had landed, northeastward to Lake Ochrida and the east-west gorges of the Shkumin River, where Italian commanders strove to make a stand against the relentless, amazing Greeks. Most Italians abhor cold as they do the sharp Greek bayonet, which Rome last week plaintively called a "barbaric and inhuman" weapon...
...first performance outside Russia of the sixth and latest symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, at 34 the No. 1 Soviet composer. The Philadelphia Orchestra got first crack at No. 6 as it might have arranged for a ton of caviar: by negotiating with Amtorg Trading Corp., paying a fee so stiff (amount kept secret) that it had to be specially approved by the Philadelphia Orchestra directors...
...Naturalism, they scarcely exist. Joe Stecher is a German-American, his wife Gurlie is Norwegian, his daughters are Lottie, 5, and Flossie, 2. They live in Manhattan, on 104th Street, and the year is 1901. Joe has quit his job (he is a printer) and is trying against stiff, not to say dirty, opposition to set up in business for himself. He lacks the proper piratical zest; but Gurlie is hell-bent to get him-and herself-In the Money. In the long run he succeeds, they get a house in the suburbs. Meanwhile Gurlie has snubbed her neighbors...
...contemporary of Rhazes was called to the king's court to treat a lady in waiting for stiff joints. He tore off her veil and skirt, left her hot with shame. Her heat, wrote the doctor, dissolved the "rheumatic humor." She was cured...