Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself as a law and ardor candidate. His politics are symbolized by the itchy trigger finger, and his judicial philosophy is summed up in a tidy homily: "You can't serve papers on a rat." Grousing around a courthouse, he comes on Mattie (Kim Darby), a girl as flat and solid as an oak board. She talks Rooster into giving her his children's rate for catching killers...
Fortunately, in everything except babies, early Shaker craftsmen were astonishingly productive. They invented a flat broom, an apple parer, a circular saw and many other labor-saving devices. Even now, their spare yet elegant furniture and utensils seem so modern that they are sought after and copied by architects and designers. Shaker villages were oases of austere grace and functionalism. "Wherever you go, you feel that you are beyond the realm of hurry," wrote one visitor in 1877. "There is no restlessness, or fret of business, or anxiety; it is as if the work was done...
...Flat Sales. "I've been looking for this kind of evidence for some time now, but I still want another month before I take out the trumpet and start to blow it," said William Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. His caution was echoed by other business and Government economists. The leading indicators, however, reveal a significant slowdown in construction, commitments for new plant and equipment and general investment activity. Retail sales have flattened in recent months, and the actual volume of sales-discounting inflation-has not risen at all over the past year. The evidence suggests...
...Expressionism, the movement that sprang from the lofts of downtown Manhattan and the studios at the far tip of Long Island in the turbulent years after World War II. Its trademark was a photograph of Jackson Pollock, intently swirling skeins of paint from a stick onto a canvas laid flat on a floor. "The most powerful painter in contemporary America," declared Critic Clement Greenberg. "Chaos . . . wallpaper . . . an elaborate if meaningless tangle of cordage and smears," complained the more conventional commentators...
...summer. The volume of retail sales has been sluggish for a year, and un employment, still a low 3.5%, is up slightly from 3.3% earlier this year. Of the three principal forces in the economy, two have lost most of their lift. Government spending and consumer spending are relatively flat; only businessmen's extremely large capital in vestments are keeping the economy expanding...