Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of these simple organic compounds have large, flat molecules that tend to drop out of even a very dilute solution. When they precipitate, these flat molecules produce layered structures, like playing cards scattered thickly on the floor. But they arrange themselves more neatly than cards do. Their edges tend to stick together, and thus the molecules build up into orderly stacks. The porphyrins do this, and so do the components of DNA (deoxyriboenucleic acid), the heredity-carrying substance that dominates life on earth...
...With the Flat of His Broadsword...
...response to this bewildering multitude of problems may be, an observer has suggested, "to try to make the country pure by whacking it with the flat of his broadsword." His expressed eagerness to settle the Kashmir dispute must be set against the intransigence of his recent statements on the subject, which, though no doubt appealing to many of his countrymen, won't solve anything. General Ayub has been a conservative man. Though he may have to produce some radical programs, the political inexperience of his advisors will prove no help to him in making them stick. Already he has found...
...myself or one of the children simply had to stay home when the rest were out: Japanese houses are quite open and there is no way of keeping anything safe in a house that does not lock. Now we all go out together and no one worries. This little flat piece of metal is wonderful. It gives us privacy and security." Adds waspish Banker Kano: "The key will emancipate wives. Their husbands will now have no good excuse for leaving them at home and going off alone to the geisha houses...
...attempt by Williams College Professor James M. Burns to take away the Republican--held Congressional seat in the first district fell flat. State Senator Silvio O. Conte won by a very comfortable margin...