Word: flat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proud, cadging six to eight Senators a day, extracting ironclad promises, not simple assurances, of support. He was aided by his colleagues' misgivings about Johnston's ties to Big Oil interests and Inouye's lackluster television style. Though Johnston made an issue of Mitchell's Northeastern liberalism, it fell flat, even with moderate and Southern Senators who have been trying to prod their party more toward the political center in the wake of Michael Dukakis' defeat...
...Fred may be able to counter the effects of his gastric binges if he has enough of the HDL vigilantes in his blood. Largely produced in the liver and the intestines, these flat, disklike particles resemble "empty envelopes waiting to be filled," says Dr. Norman Miller, head of endocrinology at North Carolina's Bowman-Gray School of Medicine. As the VLDL and chylomicron particles unload their triglyceride cargoes into the body's cells, the particles become wrinkled like prunes. In the process, fragments containing proteins, fats and cholesterol break away. It is at this point that the unfilled HDL particles...
...Well, I felt kind of flat," Kierstead answered. "After the unexpected weigh-in last night, we had to make weight kind of quick and we had had a long weekend so we were a little bit flat as a team...
...were a little flat, I think," Konovalchik said...
Hackman is probably the subtlest screen player of his generation. He is a genius at hiding his true feelings under humor, letting them show with a seemingly unconscious flicker of expression or an unfinished gesture. Dafoe stands up to him with the kind of flat-voiced certainty mastered only by men of few, but unshakable, principles. Though each learns something from the other, their relationship retains its pure scratchiness from beginning to end. These guys are never going to be buddies...