Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecution's case was clear enough. The mess sergeant testified that Pfc. God, knife in hand, had removed the eyes in thick wedges, sliced off random peels in flat slabs (instead of removing them nice and thin). Then the mess sergeant, armed with a potato and peeler, earnestly re-enacted the whole business, slashing ruthlessly away until the potato looked like a candidate for a shoestring...
...anticipates with dread the visit of his countrified mother. It is even worse than he expects; she is a liberal on the matter of race, and she turns up with a Negro college student she has met on the boat. Could the son let the Negro stay at his flat for a few days? His refusal is awkward-there is no room, really-but the mother accepts it and says no more. It is only after the son has dutifully squired her on the tourist's round and packed her back to Africa that he comes to a tormenting...
...gifted Bolivian pianist, Jaime was reading music by the time he was four, received a violin when he was six and tuned it without help, correctly pointing out that the family piano was flat. The Laredos sold their house in Bolivia, finally settled in Philadelphia, where Jaime attended Curtis Institute of Music and studied with famed Teacher Ivan Galamian. In his rare public appearances Jaime astounded critics with his virtuoso technique and sweetly purling tone (TIME, May 21, 1956). "If you closed your eyes," wrote one critic, "it could have been Busch and Serkin...
Although the varsity is favored on the basis of its record-breaking performances this year--it also holds the Charles River mark of 8:45 flat--the Elis have their normally strong crew. Undefeated before the EARC sprints where they finished third to the Crimson and Syracuse, Coach Jim Rathschmidt's men are playing themselves down but would like nothing better than to beat the Henley bound varsity...
...seek public office, but if in their wisdom the people see fit to elect me, then . . ." Rensselaer (pop. 5,500) is Halleck's boyhood town, a farming village in the northwest part of the state that inspired the song Back Home Again in Indiana. The seat of table-flat Jasper County, Rensselaer is as Republican as Vermont and twice as tough. Charlie's father. Lawyer Abraham Halleck * was a two-term Republican state senator who preached Republicanism as gospel. But if his party faith is a legacy from Father Abraham. Charlie Halleck inherited his energy and ambition from...