Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Football League, where winners collapse and favorites fall flat on their faces, usually makes football forecasting as scientific a practice as palmistry. Nevertheless, here's the way they should finish...
Coffin realizes that the program is an ambitious one, and that it could well fall flat on its face, but feels that "someone has to start the ball rolling if there's going to be any hope for the kind of coexistence with China we now have with the Soviet Union. Who knows, we might not have another chance...
...Children. It is not easy for just any dog to get into most countries. In Ireland, Great Britain and Hawaii, a dog must spend four to six months in quarantine before admittance. The U.S.S.R. gives dogs a flat nyet. And in Australia, if the dog has not resided in Ireland or Mother England for at least six months, it is destroyed on arrival. But in places like Italy, France, West Germany and Spain, all that is required for admission is such simple things as a veterinarian's certificate, plus a record of antirabies shots...
...convenient hydrological measure that equals 1,101,117,143,000 gallons. -Except for industry, New Yorkers are charged flat fees that are not affected by the amount they...
...Villard, the results of permitting posts to be "bartered away for political purposes" are often astonishing. "We have had an ambassador in South America," he writes, "who imbibed so heavily that he fell flat on the embassy floor, an ambassador in Portugal who propelled whipped cream into a lady's bosom across the dinner table, an ambassador in The Netherlands who was known as 'Herman the Hormone' because of his propensity for pinching the behind of any girl within reach...