Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bret's record is the more astonishing because he is a pacer and does his racing in harness, towing a two-wheeled cart and driver behind.* Handicapping harness horses is every bit as confusing as rating thoroughbred "flat" racers, and even then there are dozens of ways for the best horse to lose. He can get caught in a "blind switch"-boxed in by opponents' sulkies. He may be startled by the flick of the whip into "breaking"-going off stride. He can be "hung" wide on the turns and lose too much ground to make...
...looks in one mirror, sees the tattoo in another, turns white. Staring back at him is "a flat, stern Byzantine Christ with all-demanding eyes." Under their gaze he feels "as transparent as the wing of a fly." Scared silly, he drinks himself into a stupor. But when his head clears, God is still on his back and dawn is breaking. "A tree of light burst over the skyline. He felt the light pouring through him, turning his spiderweb soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts." In terror and wonder, he presents...
Alas, after some five years of this glory, her piano grew flat. She knew that only one man could be entrusted with the task of retuning. She called up Mr. Opernoketty's office to arrange an appointment. "But that is impossible!" exclaimed his astonished secretary...
...rebels, Imbert's troops proceeded to batter the rebels in a full-scale battle. Clanking through the narrow streets, loyalist tanks fired point-blank into every house suspected of harboring rebels. So vicious was the fighting that a hapless taxi driver who got out to fix a flat was gunned down and lay there a day because no one dared venture into the street. Rebels trying to escape through the rat-infested sewers were flushed out with tear...
...Caamaño railed that U.S. Marines and G.I.s were fighting side by side with the loyalists. The rebels said that paratroopers had helped Imbert's men capture Radio Santo Domingo, were moving in to secure areas attacked by the loyalists. The U.S. answer to this was a flat denial. At the White House, Press Secretary George Reedy insisted to newsmen: "The President's instructions to the troops when they went in were to observe neutrality. When the President issues instructions, we assume they are followed...