Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improvement was on hand to finally make volleying under the bright lights at least two-thirds as nice as the grass game at Forest Hills. It is a thin green rubber surface, made by U.S. Rubber, that can be rolled up, stored on cylinders, laid down in 30 minutes flat. In time, it may even become available for just about everybody's backyard Quonset court...
Shuman was a bit too slight for the brash young contractor he portrayed. his acting was more strained than the others'. He became too agitated in some of Mick's speeches which should be played with a biting, deadpan humor. But his carriage was properly deadpan--a slump-shouldered, flat-footed walk. And most essential, he captured Mick's love for his brother, reflected in the abrupt concerned, slowing down of his speech whenever the bewildered Davies took one of the younger brother's fanciful harangues as an attack on Aster...
Stocks v. Bonds. Money is costlier to borrow now than it has ever been since the Depression, and the effects of that phenomenon on the market are tremendous. A promising market rally last week fell flat after Morgan Guaranty President Thomas Gates announced a boost in the prime rate to an alltime high of 5½% . That announcement hit at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, and by closing time at 3:30 the New York Stock Exchange floor was still a scene of frantic selling activity. Within little more than an hour after Morgan Guaranty's pattern...
...young dude in a silken mustache and patent-leather shoes adrift through the California gold mine country, Harte discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
...Angly, Jane Mansfield, Ginny Storrs, and Eleanor Thomas swam a 46 flat to win the 80 yard medley relay for Radcliffe...