Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Widened Breach. Morse's addendum, amounting to flat repudiation of a President in time of war, was more than even Fulbright could swallow. And Russell's amendment, though certain to draw at least 80 Senate votes, would have set off another round of conscience-searching, party-splitting argy-bargy among the two score Democrats who have criticized the President in one degree or another. Consequently, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield decided that he would move to table Morse's amendment, thus cutting off further debate on it, if Russell would forget his motion. Russell agreed...
...virtually empty last week as the skaters went through the exacting ritual, tracing and retracing each figure while judges got down on their hands and knees to search for the slightest bulge in a circle or the telltale double line that proved a competitor had used (heaven forbid!) the flat of her skate. "It takes very hard work to get the school figures perfect," sighed Peggy; her practice schedule for almost a year had consisted of five-hour workouts six days a week. It all seemed worthwhile when the judges added up their scores: at the end of the compulsory...
...That's it!" exulted a U.S. team official. "Unless Peggy falls flat on the ice she's got it in the bag." Falling was more than a remote possibility, because Peggy's free-skating routine included the usual spins and splits-plus such exacting specialties as a "half one-and-a-half double cherry flip combination" and a "spread eagle-double axel-spread eagle...
Rubinstein's feats of memory are legendary. In 1903 he caused a sensation in Warsaw by performing Paderewski's Sonata in E Flat Minor the day after it was published; he learned Cesar Franck's complex Symphonic Variations on the train en route to a concert hall in Madrid. He can commit a sonata to memory in one hour, and he can play as many as 250 lieder. His friends used to play a kind of "Stump Artur" game in which they would call out titles?excerpts from symphonies, operas, Cole Porter scores?to see if he could play them...
...area immediately around the fireplaces is clear of debris, which seems to indicate that the inhabitants of the house slept near the fires on animal skins. There are several large flat stones scattered about, which may have been used as seats or for carving meat. The most important thing, says De Lumley, "is not so much the bones and the tools found on a prehistoric site as their relative positioning." From this, it is possible to learn a great deal about the life and the social habits of prehistoric...