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  his hands lay stiffly
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• Inside on the wall, along with stiffly formal photographs of parents and children, there usually hangs a portrait of Fidel Castro.
• Every half kilometer or so along a 25-kilometer route into town, female traffic cops stood stiffly at attention, wearing fur-lined hats and carrying batons they could .
• Vladimir Putin gives a first impression of contained power: he is compact and moves stiffly but efficiently.

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News & Articles

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• Maine trial of ex-selectwoman focuses on her workers' comp claims
  Carole Swan of Chelsea walks into the courtroom stiffly and slowly as Friday's proceedings began in Bangor.
  July 19, 2013 - Portland Press Herald

Quotes

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• Bryan Appleyard in PC World
  Apple hates personality stuff and press intrusion. 'We want to discourage profiles', an Apple PR tells me stiffly, apparently unaware she is waving a sackful of red rags at a herd of bulls,Appleyard writes. "Another PR rings the editor of...
• Martin Roscheisen in Bizjournals.com
  We are honored to be awarded the largest net amount any company receives as part of the stiffly competitive Solar America Initiative,said company CEO Martin Roscheisen.
• Dick Williams in MLB.com
  Thank goodness he understood,Williams wrote in his autobiography. "He went out there and stiffly faced one batter, who grounded out to shortstop, at which point I immediately yanked him from the game."