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Word: flatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge's only breakfast table daily have unanimously decided that this afternoon and evening will be spent in a massive, dedicated campaign to conflscate all cranberries or cranberry sauces in the Boston area. Because this praiseworthy project will strike deeply at the paper's manpower, by supreme executive flat it has been declared that there will be no Crime tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Crime Tomorrow | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

...went gunning for Canal Zone Governor William E. Potter, U.S. Army Major General on active service, who a fortnight ago firmly put down riots aimed at raising the Panamanian flag over the 10-by 50-mile zone. The U.S. reply to a demand for Potter's removal: a flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Agenda: Trouble | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

This commercial-minded argument fell flat in the wake of the U.S. scandals. Snapped one private broadcaster: "Van Doren has done more damage to free enterprise in Canadian broadcasting in an hour than the CBC in 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Bad Example | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...plane or at a stage door, Walker in a hash house or the Garden of Eden, also have their moments. But too often, though they make their lines brighter, they cannot make them bright. TV's Shelley Berman does nicely in a character-part telephone monologue, but falls flat as a straight man, and the rest of the show alternates dullness and noise when it does not combine them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue on Broadway, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Travis Linn (Parson Manders) gives the most convincing performance. His long speeches, often addressed to the painted fjords at the rear of the stage, are often flat, but, in his shorter lines, he managed to convey the Parson's fatuousness...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Ghosts | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

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