Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flat Rock, Mich...
...amazing feature of the Agriculture Department's soil-bank program is its consistent tendency to build up farm surpluses instead of reduce them. Last week the newest example was sorghum, a flat leafed, long-stalked feed grain that means little to cityfolk. But it is a price-support gold mine to farmers, and a throbbing new headache to Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...
...even the Pentagon's boasts of nuclear strength now fall flat on European ears. Russia's disclosure of her possession of a 5000 mile intercontinental missile, unanswered by a similar announcement from the U.S., has led some to believe that the American giant may have clay feet. Subsequent U.S. announcements of various weapon advancements have only corroborated European fears that America is trying desperately, and perhaps vainly, to close the technological gap created by the Soviet missile breakthrough...
...Bosporus this summer. Taking his ease aboard the royal yacht Queen Aliyah, the young King found himself often in the company of buxom Princess Fazilet, whose ancestors were for centuries the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The tall, athletic girl towered over Feisal, but she soon took to wearing flat-heeled shoes, and she was undeniably handsome...
...Little Unnerving." Of the six lively colleges, the liveliest is Antioch (no church affiliation), the able, articulate rebel against academic convention. "This is the most exciting campus in America," boasts President Samuel Gould. "We can actually try out ideas in education. If they fall flat, there's no one to claw you to bits...