Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unable to field the ball cleanly, and Goff scored, Martynik stretching his base hit for two bases. In the midst of this confusion Des Roches pulled the situation out of the fire by making a valiant stab at the hard grounder sent out by Potter, catching Martynik flat-footed as he tore into the base. Two flies and a strike out was Harvard's record in this inning...
...convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at Houston last week Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak pulled from his pocket an old, flat, Irish potato. This, he announced, was his "magic potato." It brought him good luck. Said he: "It is even good for neurasthenia...
...less spectacular, far more important than New York's rat hunt was the roundup of six criminals in an East St. Louis, Ill. flat last week. The capture, effected by State, Federal and local officers, ended an eight-month investigation by Post Office sleuths and other agencies. According to Patrick Roche, chief investigator of the Chicago States Attorney's Office, the prisoners were remnants of the now defunct Cuckoo and Shelton mobs of Southern Illinois. They were suspected of numerous bank robberies including the $200,000 Denver Mint holdup in 1922, and kidnappings, including that of Fred...
Like Romans under Caligula, Mexicans at San Luis Potosi last week flocked to their arena to witness gory battle between a lion and a bull. Headlong the bull charged; swiftly the lion struck, clawed down its adversary's face, threw it flat, stalked proudly away...
...flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his Creation, Brahms in his First Symphony. Wagner used the mighty mouthed tuba to plumb the murky depths of his Niebelungen Ring...