Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three movements of Haydn's Symphony No. 2 in B-flat, the last work performed, the orchestra sounded as though it had not yet calmed down after the Hindemith. The balances were poor and the tone in general ragged. Mr. Senturia held the group together with difficulty, and the attacks were consistently bad. The second movement failed to sing, and the menuetto did not have the grace and style which is usually the Orchestra's strongest point...
...came fully awake to the fact that its normal best in the cold war is no longer good enough. The U.S. satellite test vehicle, reaching for the sky and falling flat on its pad, was a symbol of the old standards: a hurry-up effort to answer moons with a moon, klaxons of witless pressagentry and, after the flop, yelps of anguish (cried Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's two satellites?"). Yet even if Vanguard had been successful in its first...
Sometimes Roosevelt's fighting was impromptu. Frederic Almy, his class secretary, recalls that during a torchlight procession in the Hayes-Tilden presidential campaign a bystander on the sidewalk said something derogatory. The impulsive Teddy threupon, recording to Almy, "reached out and laid the mucker flat...
...taste for everyday scenes for home decoration was handled in tapestries for the rich; for the less well-to-do, it fell to the "stayned clothe" works on perishable fine linen turned out by the watercolorists. It was to this tradition, with its set format, sharply delineated forms and flat surfaces, that Bruegel himself turned, developing it in his oils to the level of great...
...like a crude ICBM, a hyperspeed missile will either skip or glide. If it skips, it will climb into space about half as high as a ballistic missile of the same range. Instead of plunging down to earth, it will skip off the top of the atmosphere like a flat stone off the surface of a pond. By doing this several times, if necessary, it can reach a distant target over an unpredictable course. The glide missile is simpler. It merely climbs up 50 miles or more by rocket power, turns horizontal and glides to its destination at something like...