Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks, depending on state laws), with the Federal Government lending the money to the states. But no sooner had the proposal reached Capitol Hill than House Ways & Means Committee Democrats came up with a far more lavish plan. The committee approved (16-9) a bill providing a flat 16 extra weeks' compensation (TIME, April 28), airily ruling out repayment by the states. The Democrats boosted the bill's cost about three-quarters of a billion dollars by the 16-week ruling and by specifying coverage for 900,000 seasonal laborers, fishermen, government employees and others, who cannot...
...loud acclamation." He was hoping to leave in a fortnight with his daughter Indira for the cool, piny forests of Uttar Pradesh, there to sleep under the stars, ride ponies, climb mountains and go boating. He had served his country as leader for 10½ years, and felt "flat and stale...
Considering the heavy rain and soggy track, which forced the jumps indoors, the winning times, especially those of Joel Landau, were exceptional. The speedy Junior won both hurdles, the highs with a 14.7 which tied the meet record and the lows in a creditable 24 seconds flat. In the latter, he had to come from behind to catch Cornell's ubiquitous Bo Roberson at the last hurdle...
Roberson won both the 100 and the broad jump. A 9.7 century man, Roberson's winning time of 10 seconds flat in the former attested to the sloppiness of the track and made Landau's times the more outstanding...
Racing under the fast conditions of flat water and an eight-mile tail wind, the varsity sped over the mile and three-quarters Lake Carnegie course in 8:40.6. The previous record of 8:41.4 was set by Cornell...