Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seville, bull breeders in flat-brimmed hats still sip cognac in sidewalk cafés, and aging horses still pull ancient carriages along streets lined with orange trees toward the world's largest Gothic cathedral. But across the Guadalquivir, tens of thousands of spinning bobbins turn raw cotton and wool into finished fabric in one of Europe's largest textile plants. In the main square of Cordoba, an Arab caliphate for 250 years, a transcribed electric guitar chimes the hour in flamenco rhythm. In Bilbao, shipyards work round the clock to keep pace with orders for merchant vessels...
Boeing Boeing, by contrast, plows leadenly into every error that Male Companion avoids. Its graceless lechery weighs down a comedy about three airline hostesses who share a Paris flat with Tony Curtis. As a prodigiously oversexed American newspaperman, Tony has obviously never met a deadline, but he does keep busy checking timetables, the better to enjoy, one by one, his "fiancées" from British United (Suzanna Leigh), Lufthansa (Christiane Schmidt-mer) and Air France (Dany Saval). "You don't need a housekeeper-you need a Univac," snaps Tony's maid-of-all-work, Thelma Ritter, who schlumps...
Thomas Coates, who was elected last week as vice-chairman, said that Councilor Thomas H.D. Mahoney's move to re- consider his election was "prompted by nothing but plain, flat bigotry." Mahoney, an M.I.T. history professor, angrily dismissed Coates' charge, declaring that it was a "nasty, little innuendo." On a revote, Coates won again as vice-chairman...
...have to soar to $1335 if the off-campus residents were charged proportionately more for the greater benefits which they receive. Radcliffe loses $41 per year on dormitory students and $340 per year on off-campus students. This disparity could be cut down in other ways than charging a flat room-and-board...
...Desert, even if it is only an hour. And worst of all, the entire conception doesn't quite come off. The wild west notion is certainly a good topic for satire, but when it is pushed to an indictment of yesterday's and today's America, it falls flat in its saddle...