Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands and play pen pals with the West after Stalin's death, the Kremlin had use for Bulganin's smooth good looks, benign good manners, and easy way with a glass. Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster. "A real gentleman;' cooed a French chorus girl from a visiting troupe he once called on backstage at the Bolshoi. "A master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension," said...
...leadership, an Indian reporter told Nehru that there had been suggestions that he resign the premiership, at least temporarily. "I might retire my tenure when I feel like it," answered Nehru. "I am a man of moods." Then, gazing reflectively up at the ceiling, he added: "I do feel flat and stale, and I don't think it is right for a person to feel that way and have to deal with vital and important problems. My work needs freshening up ... but I think I may have some further years of effective service, because I am bodily fit. While...
...Townsend, 43, at the end of his 17-month, 60,000-mile world tour, had driven in his green Rover to Clarence House, residence of Princess Margaret, 27. While hundreds milled around outside, the two chatted, sipped tea, then left separately after nearly three hours-he to a rented flat, she, beaming, to a movie premiere. Next day from The Hague came rumbles of royal displeasure. Outwardly composed, the smiling Queen was reportedly angry, partly because the Townsend-Margaret reunion had driven the carefully publicized royal tour off London's front pages. Less than 24 hours after...
...tube. Not without lively spots (notably a duet of Baby, It's Cold Outside, incongruously teaming Rock Hudson and Mae West, and a song-and-dance routine by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), it was better organized than in recent years, but still prone to flat jokes and awkward entrances and exits. All the same, with such old-guard purists as Clark Gable, John Wayne and Gary Grant helping the cause of motion pictures, Producer Jerry Wald figured that the free talent alone would have cost a paying sponsor...
...Dead Serious." G.M. countered by calling for a continuation of the present contract, which would provide a flat 6% yearly wage boost, no additional benefits and no profit-sharing. Automakers speculated that Reuther himself has little hope of winning a profit-sharing agreement, is only using it as leverage in the main fight for a hefty wage raise, despite all his "dead serious" talk of finding "a way by which wage earners can achieve their equity, their measure of social and economic justice." Reuther may even have trouble gaining much of a pay boost. With skidding sales, the industry...