Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes, but its Orwellian impact unsettled even hard-boiled Communist newsmen. Through a curtained doorway in Hanoi marched a husky American prisoner of war clad in purple and cream striped pajamas. He looked healthy enough, except for his eyes; as the strobe lights winked, they remained as fixed and flat as blazer buttons. Then, at a word from his captors, the American bowed deeply from the waist like a Manchurian candi date, repeating the abject gesture in all directions about a dozen times. At an other command, he turned on his sandaled heel and marched stiffly from the room...
...year-old charter, a farrago of archaisms and amendments so cluttered with trivia that it even spells out regulations for off-street parking in Baltimore. The legislature also adopted the state's first billion-dollar budget and passed a long-needed tax-reform measure, replacing the flat 3% state income tax with a graduated levy of from 2% to 5%, which will give Maryland a much-needed revenue boost of $120 million a year...
...Golfers' Association is not always particularly choosy about where it books them. This year's Los Angeles Open was played on a mediocre public course, and the ridiculously low scoring at the Pensacola Open was hardly unexpected; at 6,380 yds., the Pensacola Country Club's flat, sun-baked 18 is little more than an oversized par-three course...
...collection of such stories, intricate in pattern, flat in surface, should be called Entails of Manhattan. Within his esthetic code, Auchincloss tells the truth and nothing but the truth. But he does not tell the whole truth, which can be dismissed as irrelevant, immaterial-and harder to write...
Blitman orders a roast beef special and cheese cake to go. The order is passed along by the counter people and finally disappears into a cranny near the big black stove. Then out of the confusion of cardboard boxes comes the special. Thirty seconds flat...