Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity captain Chouteau Dyer devoted the meet to practice, first winning the 220 freestyle in 2:12.1, then the 100-yard freestyle in 51 seconds flat...
Rival Spirits. Most of the actual work of consolidating the regime seems to have been transferred to Gyorgy Marosan, 49. a flat-nosed, gate-mouthed Socialist Party renegade who, like Kadar, had been through ex-Party Boss Rakosi's torture mill in seven years in a Communist prison. Though Marosan appeared to have more spirit than Kadar, his appeals to sullen Hungarian audiences to help save the economy had an unrealistic sound. More in the spirit of those audiences, though no longer perhaps within their capacity, were the posters, plastered on Budapest walls last week, exhorting Hungarians...
...Ivar. like Aristide. was past thinking and past explaining. At 11 a.m. he had shuttered the blinds of his unostentatiously elegant flat at No. 5 Avenue Victor Emmanuel and lain down neatly on his bed. Then he had drawn aside his black coat and the leather locket with the gold coin that always rested on his breast like a superstitious token of his only god. and shot himself with a 9-mm. Browning pistol, neatly through the middle of his heart...
...seeds of a new French revolution were being sown last week in a small shop near the Arc de Triomphe. There, crowds of customers were enthusiastically shopping in France's first discount house, with prices of refrigerators, toasters and all other goods cut a flat 20% under prices fixed by manufacturers and retailers. In two or three days, the yellow-fronted shop did as much business as others in the neighborhood handled in a year...
Robertson's leadoff time was 52 seconds flat, while Cairns was caught in a phenomenal 49.9. Morris, who slowed down after hearing that Kirschner had dropped the baton, finished in 51.8., while Wharton ran a creditable...