Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reels until they stop at the jackpot position. But since freshly drilled holes are too easily detected, other jackpotters have fashioned keys with which they can unlock machines and stop the reels by hand. A first-class crook can walk the reels, hit the jackpot in 30 seconds flat and, before the change girl appears, slip his small tools to an accomplice, who ambles away. Then he collects his money, goes off to make another strike...
...trumpeter is safer sitting than standing, and safest of all when he is lying flat on his back...
...smallest guys on the campus''-see cut). For the benefit of Modesto (Calif.) Junior College, the telephone company got into the act. warily provided a booth that provided room for 32. But the Modesto coup clearly could not stand unchallenged. For one thing, the booth was lying flat on the ground; for another, the telephone had been removed...
...conditions of their survival-no daytime movement, speech or even use of the w.c. -the cramped loft thrums with a threat as foreboding from within as from without. Young Anne wakes from a nightmare with terrified screams; greedy old Van Daan. whose wife and teen-age son share the flat with the Franks, tries to steal a crust of the communal bread; the dentist bolts for the door when the phone in the deserted office below jangles noisily. Yet no one cracks so completely that the cement of their absolute dependence on one another cannot repair the damage...
...first move in this direction was to increase the cost from ten dollars flat fee for an unlimited number of tests to five dollars registration fee and eight dollars for each test. The new rate takes effect this year, but the tests already cost between thirty and fifty dollars apiece to administer and grade...