Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forbiddingly closed to guests, have begun to entertain once more. The Chinese embassy in Moscow has imported a cook from Hupeh province whose spiced cabbage and chicken receives favorable mention on the diplomatic dinner circuit. Recent European guests (no Americans have been invited) reported that the atmosphere becomes somewhat stiff after dinner, when each visitor is seated individually with a Chinese and subjected to a quiz on such issues as Soviet intentions in Europe and his own government's policies...
Currently Congress is considering a stiff bill to make oilmen liable for pollution in coastal waters. In Brussels last month, delegates from 49 countries met to tackle the problem of assigning liability for oil spills on the high seas. What is left unsolved is a really efficient way of removing oil from the ocean without further damaging marine life. In Manhattan last week, oilmen attending a three-day conference on oil spills, sponsored by the Federal Government and the oil industry, were told that spreading straw on top of the water is still one of the best ways...
...Christmas vacations drew near, some college administrations (at Fisk and Manhattanville) ended classes early, isolating student sit-ins. Two major universities, however, responded to earlier demonstrations with stiff new rules and penalties...
...lived long enough to see himself transformed from a faded relic of some impossibly sophisticated yesterday into a minor classic. After World War II, a new generation viewed him-along with P. G. Wodehouse-as the last, slightly ridiculous vestige of the frivolous '20s. Country houses, stiff upper lips, cocktails-and-laughter-but-oh-what-comes-after and all that. Many of his plays flopped in the '40s and '50s and his fortunes sagged, although with typical resilience he embarked on a successful new venture as a cabaret performer...
...Stiff Price. The deal brought an angry response from Congressman Henry Reuss, chairman of the Joint Congressional Subcommittee on International Exchange and Payments. He said that the U.S. "would pay a stiff price for any compromise with South Africa." A floor under the private price of gold, he argued, would encourage speculation by taking the risk out of it, and would possibly tempt foreign bankers to demand conversion of their dollar reserves into gold...