Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teresa Stratas is not yet the most famous soprano around, but standing a flat 5 feet, she is surely the smallest. Performance by performance, review by review, she has been inching to stardom. As Cherubino in the Metropolitan Opera's Marriage of Figaro last December and as Liu in Turandot, she won the kind of acclaim that prima donnas are made...
...Horatio Alger in reverse: "No problem is so big or so complicated that it cannot be run away from." Snoopy, the dog with the floppy ears and foolish smile, is the perfect hedonist. He dances, skates, jumps rope, hunches like a vulture but above all likes to lie flat on his back on the top of his doghouse awaiting supper -which sometimes includes a dish of sherbet on the side. Snoopy is no great shakes at chasing rabbits ("I don't even know what a rabbit smells like"), but he never fails to sniff out ice cream cones...
With their sharklike snouts and flat fannies, the homemade Chaparrals of Oilman Jim Hall, 28, would not win any automotive beauty contests. Their Chevrolet engines put out 450 h.p. compared with 385 h.p. for the Fords and 350 for the Ferraris, but instead of manual gear boxes, they had-that's right-automatic transmissions. "Better acceleration," Hall insisted, and in a practice run for last week's twelve-hour Prix de 1'Endurance, he tooled around Sebring's 5.2-mile course in 2 min. 57.6 sec.-nine seconds better than the fastest Ford...
...story." His object, he piously proclaims, is to create "splendid men and women to work for progress." But when his eldest daughter shows signs of becoming a splendid woman, Sam savagely attempts to destroy her-jeers at her poetry, sneers at her diary and, when all else fails, comes flat out with the awful truth: "You will never leave me! I'll break that miserable dogged spirit of yours...
...there were more hotels in the world like the St. Gregory in New Orleans, no one would ever go home again except to leave a change of address. Herbie Chandler, the bell captain, can package and deliver a well-mounted orgy in three hours flat. Ogilvie, the house detective, will accept $25,000 to forget about a hit-and-run accident. There are shortcomings, of course, and once in a while even a mechanical slipup, like the business with the elevator. The assistant general manager "made a mental note" to find out what was wrong as early as page...