Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Jenkins!" says Seat now, with reminiscent horror. "What can you do with a handle like that? God knows, my middle name, Sanford, is bad enough. But Harold Jenkins!" Then it turned out that hazel-eyed Harold twanged a neat country guitar and his voice could bounce from flat rock 'n' roll to a high-pitched sexy whisper. There was only one thing, Don decided-that name had to go. "I thought of Twitty. I tried Johnny Twitty, Freddie Twitty, but it just didn't work. Then we got to talking about towns in Arkansas...
Many a dedicated painter still freezes in a cold-water flat, still depends on the discriminating small collector who cares more about his instincts than his investments. But the flood of money into the art market is testament to the new status of art in the scale of values of U.S. culture. Even those unknown artists who do not benefit directly, or at once, can be grateful. As long as prices are posted over lunch counters, artists will go on taking an interest in the relation between the price of what they sell and the price of what they...
...season deafened with the rat-tat-tat of drearily mechanical gag shows, this alone would call for modest thanks. But, in La Plume's case, the quality of merci is not strained; the show shines by more than contrast. If a fair number of its exhibits fall rather flat, even they have high spots to fall from, and acrobatic performers...
...have been rented for large Club dinners, have furiously prohibited the Club from ever returning, so vast was the damage in shattered glass and splintered wood. And returning from one of these extravaganzas last year, one Club member carefully aimed a fist at a fellow member only to lay flat a punchee when his drunken blow went astray...
...completed 12 out of 20 passes in the half, all of them flat and bullet-fast, arrowing directly into the hands of his receivers. He carried the ball only three times, but these netted him 25 yards and two touchdowns. And his play-calling showed real cleverness and poise, especially in the clutch...