Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shimmering Dust. The major theater of war is the broad Punjab plain, which stretches flat from horizon to horizon. It is lushly green, dotted with clumps of trees, laced by canals. The days are swelteringly hot, and dust clouds shimmer in the glaring sun. It is Rudyard Kipling country, immortalized in such books as Kim and Indian Tales. And the soldiers on both sides are very like the men Kipling so deeply revered. The officers are British-trained, and many are graduates of Sandhurst. They have the British manner, right down to clipped accents, mustaches and swagger sticks. The enlisted...
...began after dawn with a thunderous artillery barrage that sent the villagers of Chhamb and Dewa in the southwestern tip of Kashmir scurrying for shelter. As the sun rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...
...pertinently, the car population has risen by almost 50 million since World War II, growing an average 5.7% a year while people increased by only 1.7%. Millions of families have bought their first car, or their first second car, or their first third car. Traffic engineers have been caught flat-tired. Great fleets of new cars will continue to cascade onto U.S. highways, but eventually, a point of saturation comes-probably at the ratio of one car for every person who can drive. Once the U.S. nears some realistic maximum volume of functioning cars on the road, growth of auto...
...gate an estimated 10% by trying to sing classical arias at the Shelby County (Iowa) Fair in July. And Lorne Green's Shakespearean parody of one of his own Bonanza scripts-"That which we call a Hoss by any other name would smell as sweet"-fell prairie-flat at the Illinois State Fair last month...
Four in the Fudge. Heavy rain fell all night before the race, and by post time the clay track was the consistency of soft fudge. Unlike flat-racing thoroughbreds, who plant their hoofs, then pick them straight up-and often revel in the softer footing of an "off" track-trotters slide their hoofs slightly forward each time they take a stride; they tend to slip and get mired in the mud. That is exactly what happened to Noble Victory: twice in the three-heat race, he broke stride; in the third heat, the best he could do was third...