Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basically, there are only so many ways to wait-standing up, sitting down, leaning over, slumping, and lying flat. But customers and patients, applicants and clients, all take a cue from their common mission, find a suitable code. Couples found in adoption-agency reception rooms affect an air of simple good taste (no jewelry other than religious medals), shun cigarettes, hum strains of lullabies every now and then. The same couple, accompanying their college-aged son to the admissions office of a select university, will dress with understated dash (a necklace of wooden, hand-painted beads for her, suede elbow...
Approached by a circular walkway, the tomb rises a few steps above an elliptical plaza, completing a 1.3-mile axis with the large Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac. The graves, including those of his two dead infants, are marked by flat slate stones set in a grassy plot bordered by a low plinth, where the eternal flame, cupped in a modern version of a classic oil lamp, will continue to burn. Behind it, but subordinate to the classic-revival facade of the historic Custis-Lee Mansion atop the slope, is a low, short wall, flanked by flowering magnolias, which will...
...distance and the terrain may both work to Hewlett's disadvantage. The Crimson junior seems to run better as the miles increase, and he lost ground noticeably to Lynch on the flat stretches in last week's IC4A...
...Michigan State course is only four miles long and relatively flat in comparison to the Van Cortland Park course that Hewlett and Allen have run so impresively on the last two weeks...
...Over the flat third mile Lynch closed the gap to ten yards, and when the two started to climb the cliff-like "cemetery hill," the two were virtually even...