Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Income. Proposed hikes in the federal gasoline tax, aviation gas tax and postal rates (first-class mail to a flat 5?) will, if approved by Congress, help bring income into line with outgo...
...flat, hieratic panels of his teacher, Cimabue, were more Byzantine than Italian, more like presentations of ideas than pictures of events. Giotto made the Madonna smile, for the first time, and weep as well. His Life of Christ is first of all the life of a man, born of woman and in the midst of humanity. The translucent humanness of Giotto's masterpiece reflects Christ's divinity like sunlight in a prism...
...loved by another. For all his lostness, he seems an essentially comic type till suddenly-out of Winesburg, Ohio more than Worcester, Mass.-he kills himself. Earlier, Behrman nowhere sounds the few right notes that might anticipate such dark final chords; from the beginning, in fact, Willie is all flat surface. The flatness is really general; that Willie is joltingly tragic matters less than that all the young people seem hand-me-downs...
...feign surprise on receiving the letter). Two days later the new cardinals join the Pope at an "intimate" consistory, during which he hands each one the scarlet biretta. Then comes a public consistory, at which old and new cardinals mingle and the Pope presents the galero-the round, flat red hat which is the traditional symbol of the cardinalate. Last of all is another secret consistory, at which the new cardinals get their rings and are assigned their titular churches...
SOME veterans of the tradition-bound railroad industry are wagering that Ben Heineman's commuter plan will fall flat-and a few are quietly hoping it will, since Heineman is not one of their up-from-the-roundhouse breed. The son of a wealthy Wausau, Wis. lumberman who went broke in the Depression, Heineman studied law at Northwestern University ('36), set up practice in Chicago. In 1954, invited in by dissident investors, he won an acrimonious proxy war for control of the little Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, boosted earnings fast. In 1956, with one-third of its stock...