Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rosemary's Baby and the latter as a watered-down Holden Caulfield in The Graduate, is enough to confirm to this aging mind that when eccentricity and grotesquerie become the prime movers of modern society and grace the cover of society's most powerful conscience, the Flat Earth Society might have something...
...body. Water was another life-or-death commodity. Ski troopers in the desertlike dry cold require between three and five quarts of water daily. While equipment designers have achieved some success in producing insulated canteens and tanks to transport water into the field, the delay caused by a flat tire can turn an entire battalion's supply into...
During a practice session seven years ago, the Chicago Black Hawks' Stan Mi-kita split the flat, straight blade of his hockey stick into a haphazard V-shape...
...paid for his services, which is his obvious right. Rather, it means that he must be paid for each individual service, on the basis that U.A.W. President Walter Reuther aptly and contemptuously calls "piecework." It means that no doctor should offer lifetime care to a patient for a flat or annual fee, and thus rules out prepayment by an annual dues system. It means that when a patient goes into a hospital for an operation, he must pay the admitting doctor's bill, a separate surgeon's bill, a separate radiologist's bill for X rays and a separate anesthesiologist...
...flight, air is forced to flow more quickly over the curved topside than past the flat undersurface. Air pressure above the wing is thereby reduced, and the wing develops lift...