Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to prevent the Crusaders from adding a touchdown in the final two seconds, Dartmouth made an on-sides kick and recovered the ball. End of game. It was kind of like Killer Kiwalski kicking Arnold Scolland in the groin after the Killer had laid Arnold out flat in a pro wrestling spectacular...
Then Piazza made his move. and Colburn let him go. Harvard had more or less conceded first to Piazza in prerace strategy: the important thing was grouping. "He went out on the flat. the one place where I didn't expect it." Colburn said later...
...mood-welcome to Washington's inflation fighters but a source of concern to many businessmen-has been building up for months. The trend of retail sales has been flat almost all year. During the twelve months that ended last July, sales rose less than 2% while prices advanced nearly 4%, meaning that the actual volume of retail trade shrank about 2%. Though retail sales climbed above last year's levels during the latest week reported by the Commerce Department, most of the increase reflected the early introduction of 1970 auto models (see story...
Ocelots at Home. Bernie Cornfeld broke into the world's financial establishment by dint of supersalesmanship. He formed I.O.S. 13 years ago in a Paris flat after deciding that there were millions to be made in marketing mutual funds abroad. I.O.S. has since grown into the world's largest financial sales organization, with 13,000 salesmen and 750,000 clients in 110 countries...
...whose search for a London apartment is complicated by predictable amounts of prejudice and duplicity. "Yes, Madam," he recites patiently over the phone, "it is a Scottish name. But I am from the West Indies. Yes, I am hopelessly black." On a tip, he finds lodgings in the Chelsea flat of Roddy (Robin Phillips), the son of "decayed gentle folk." Roddy's own insecurities lead him to identify more and more with Mackenzie's black friends and to lure him into a dead-end love affair with a white girl (Judy Geeson...