Search Details

Word: stiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Senior Larry Stiff, president of the group said he expects more contributions and matching funds over the course of the year and a total of at least $10,000 for financial aid by June...

Author: By The BROWN Daily herald, | Title: Beautiful Brown | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

Instead of drawing out the comic possibilities of this lovely scenario, the BSC actors tend to remain in pointed and stiff positions throughout the show, producing an artificial and amateurish effect--though they relax somewhat by the third...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Much Too Wilde | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

Saturday's sinking of the Midshipmen, upping Harvard's season slate to 3-1, allows the oarsmen to enter next Saturday's important Harvard-Yale-Princeton race on a positive note The New Jersey regatta will doubtless provide the Crimson lights with stiff competition Earlier this season Princeton beat Navy by a bigger margin than the Crimson, and Yale is expected to be equally tough...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Princeton Upsets Heavies; Lightweights Blast Navy | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...Pinafore is so often performed that stiff, prepped-out productions usually mar it, or else wisecracks and stants hide the memorable lyrics and melodies. Yet musical director Grodsky, stage director Kevin Fennessy, and choreographer Grace Napier blend their skills to enhance the show's "sun-never-sets" mystique...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Trial and Tribulation | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...reaction in Peking was fast and furious. In a chilly half-hour meeting, Vice Foreign Minister Han Xu delivered a stiff protest to American Ambassador Arthur Hummel Jr. Social contacts with American diplomats in China were instantly chilled, and cultural and athletic exchange programs were suspended for the rest of the year, the first official downgrading of ties by Peking since diplomatic relations between the two countries were formally restored in January 1979. At the minimum, the Hu Na incident symbolized the growing tensions between the Reagan Administration and the People's Republic. "The U.S. Government has kept doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Furious Volley in a No-Win Match | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

First | Previous | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | 307 | 308 | Next | Last