Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free), two tiled bathrooms, two mechanics' bays and a battery of U-Haul trailers for rent. Most of the cast had never heard of Evanston, much less the A & A, until they found themselves waylaid outside town by a steaming radiator, broken drive shaft, clogged fuel pump or flat tire, and brought here. Usually they are towed in by Jon Lunsford, 40, soft-spoken Mormon and "the Boss," or by his ace mechanic, Cliff Cole, 36, a chain-smoking drinker-turned-teetotaler, who likes to explain that he's "been working on cars for 40 years...
...last week the election balloon that had seemed to be nearing takeoff in Britain for most of the summer ran flat out of hot air. In a move that stunned pundits and outraged political opponents, the Prime Minister announced in a four-minute televised address to his countrymen that his minority Labor government would not call for a general election next month, as nearly everyone thought it would. Declared Callaghan: "The government must and will continue to carry out policies which are consistent and determined, which do not chop and change ..." In practical terms, that almost certainly postponed Britain...
...pressing a spirit caged by infinite space. In an age when reason and the romance of individual freedom were replacing old certitudes, Piranesi's labyrinthine galleries, infinitely receding arches and end less stairs must have been as profoundly unsettling to his contemporaries as the edge of a flat earth was to the ancients or black holes in space are to modern man. -A.T. Baker
Harvard has made an agreement with Boston to pay a flat percentage of the rents collected at Soldiers Field Park, a housing facility for individuals affiliated with the University, in exchange for zoning approval...
...elections, which will probably be conducted by the House committees in a fashion similar to the ratification vote. "I think a lot of freshmen will run," Pfeffer said. "And I think a lot of convention people will run just to make sure the assembly doesn't fall flat on its face...