Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luther M. Ragin Jr. '76, a student at the Kennedy School and the Law School, said yesterday if Allison's response is interpreted as a "flat no" a prolonged conflict might occur between the Kennedy School administration and many student groups...
...year's planetary grand finale will occur in September, when Pioneer 11 reaches Saturn almost five years after its visit to Jupiter. It will pass just outside Saturn's rings, sending back the first closeup pictures of those flat bands of icy debris. During that close encounter, Pioneer will also train its electronic gaze on the huge Saturnine moon, Titan, which has a diameter of some 5,800 km (3,600 miles) and a significant atmosphere, probably consisting of methane, other gases, and organic molecules like those that may have been the precursors of life on earth...
Betrayal is blessed in its stars. Massey's Robert speaks with a honed intelligence. The presence of Wilton's Emma would warm any flat, and as for Gambon's Jerry, he is a fond slave of love, though perhaps too passive to be a literary agent. Few playgoers can have left The Caretaker and The Homecoming without being viscerally shaken up. Quite a few may leave Betrayal, with its anesthetized passions, feeling vaguely shaken down...
...first few minutes, after setting off again, I fell every ten or so steps. My mind couldn't control my legs, let alone summon the strength to boost me back up. Once down I would sway on my knees, occasionally falling flat on my face, until one or another or two of the men hoisted me up. As soon as they put a jacket on me I warmed up, regained some strength and considerably more sense. They wanted to make me drop my pack, as Mike had done. By then I knew enough to say no. We were below treeline...
After dropping two of her first five touches to Loretta Jeffries, the only Rhode Island fencer who moved back and forth on the balls of her feet rather than clomping up and down like a flat-footed Frankenstein, Lowry captured 18 of her last 19 points in winning all four of her bouts...