Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music wafting out of the examination room and down the halls at New Orleans' Ochsner Medical Center last week sounded like an import of old-time Chicago jazz, played from the heart. It was. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, 58, was in the room, flat on his back, swathed in surgical drapes, holding up a borrowed cornet with his free right hand as he launched, predictably, into St. Louis Blues. Next came a more or less reverent When the Saints Go Marching In, and then a throbbing medley of old familiar blues...
Lynch, who had stuck to the hurdles and relay this season won the college 440, his first individual flat race of the year. He set a sizzling pace for a lap and a half, with Holy Cross freshman Jack Collins on his heels...
...Aqua Sports' 8-ft, flat-bottomed "Skim'R Fish," which draws only two inches of water, is driven by an air propeller, uses only one gallon of gas every three hours. Price...
...habits show up early, and they are often impossible to correct. The classic case is a greyhound named Terris Foot, who competed in hurdle races and always led the pack up to the final jump-where he always fell down. His handler decided to try him in a flat race. Terris Foot kept right on jumping, and when he reached the spot where the last nonexistent hurdle would have been, he fell down...
Lonergan's new students start by tittering at his singsong voice and unmelodiously flat Latin pronunciation, and end by despairing at his blithe unconcern for the frailties of lesser intellects. Once, after failing to get a philosophical point across to his class, Lonergan brightened, said: "I think this will make it clear," proceeded to cover the blackboard with differential equations. During a World War II discussion about the loss to mankind in bomb-gutted libraries, Lonergan argued that the important things were in people's minds, not in books. In answer, someone cited Shakespeare...