Word: stiffened
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...used paper: ink. Largely because of ink's stubborn presence, U.S. newspapers, which pay a near-prohibitive $134 a ton for fresh newsprint, get less than $20 a ton for used newsprint, which is repulped and pressed into a coarse grey cardboard of the sort used to stiffen the backs of scratch pads and freshly laundered shirts. If there were an economic and efficient way of removing the ink, waste paper could be used over and over again. Last week in Chicago, Marshall Field's Sun-Times and Daily News were both running on newsprint reconstituted from waste...
Throughout the South, Griffin encountered what he calls "the hate stare." Offering his seat to a white woman in a New Orleans streetcar, he watched her face stiffen into hostility. "What are you looking at me like that for?" she asked sharply, and turned away muttering, "They're getting sassier every day." Hitchhiking through Alabama, he was picked up by a white truck driver who inquired, with a leer, whether Griffin's wife had ever slept with a white man, informed him that "we're doing your race a favor to get some white blood into your...
...Group Captain Llewellyn Briggs. With the ultras, Mboya believes, Africans at least know where they stand. White extremists have already begun denouncing Blundell back home as a dupe. Now, far from rewarding him for his reasonableness. Macleod confronted him with a plan that seemed destined only to stiffen his white critics further. For big Michael Blundell, the bus seemed already moving too fast...