Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Floor on the Downside. He proposed that wages be tied to living costs. His offer to G.M.'s 225,000 workers was a flat 3?-an-hour increase now, plus an 8? hourly boost which would increase or decrease as the cost of living rose or fell. If the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumers' price index rises, G.M. would add 1? to wages for each 1.14 points of higher prices.* If the index falls, 1? would be subtracted on the same scale. But there would be a floor on the downside; no more than 5? would...
...Flat & Toneless. When budget night came, External Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent moved into Abbott's seat to let the Finance Minister have the front-row place of honor next to the P.M. The House was only two-thirds full. M.P.s trickled in as Abbott started to read his 14,000-word speech. As he recited the hard facts of the nation's financial life, his voice got flat and toneless. More & more M.P.s left the chamber for a smoke...
...black & white. Hero & heroine are Good; villain and assistant villain (brain & brawn) are Evil. Love finds its strongest expression in a frank, manly smile. Sex never, never rears its snuggly head. (One serial director recalls that when Carole Landis first reared her chest in serials, it was sternly taped flat by the make-up department...
...dignity and promise of man; 2) insistence on "the principle of the free mind"; 3) "a common program of [liberal] social action." On matters theological there seemed almost as many opinions as there were Unitarians; toward God, attitudes ranged from emphatic interest through vagueness and indifference to flat rejection. Sample views...
Other practical pointers: exercise to give a man a "high head, a flat belly, a capable heart"; care in the use of alcohol, which is "a dangerous enemy, an agreeable acquaintance, and a helpful friend." Doctors should tell their elderly patients whether a drink would help them (alcohol is a vasodilator, relaxing the coronary arteries) or hurt them (cocktails are bad for arthritics). Being overweight is not really a problem of old age, says Dr. Crampton, for fat men seldom live that long. But the public should put more of its money into research into chronic diseases, which make...