Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed hardly possible. Here was Arizona's Barry Goldwater, who only a few weeks ago appeared to be flat on his back in his quest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. He had been counted out because of the supposed political effects of John Kennedy's assassination and Lyndon Johnson's accession to the White House. He had been counted out as he campaigned about the country seeming to hate every minute of it and, entirely too often, shooting from the lip. He had been counted out as the polls showed his popularity dipping drastically...
...longer gay, sat and steamed until he got there. Charles de Gaulle, 73, recovered from his operation, was returning from the Left Bank hospital to the Right Bank Elysee Palace, and the police had thoughtfully blocked off all streets along the route. He made it in six minutes flat; the traffic jam took hours to unsnarl...
...double-page ad in the New York Times posed two flat-footed questions: "What Evening Newspaper Leads the Nation in Total Advertising Linage?" and "What Morning Newspaper Ranks Sixth in the Nation in Total Advertising Linage?" Readers who scanned the tables printed below must have done a double take when they saw the answers: the San Jose News and the San Jose Mercury. How did those papers get so far up on the lists? And where is San Jose anyway...
Dartmouth, Navy, and Yale shouldn't provide much competition either, unless the team goes very flat indeed, and the New England Intercollegiate Tournament won't afford much more than a little practice. Last year no other college got a man as far as the semifinals, with Harvard's four entrants dominating the tourney...
...spent her youth during the blitz in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional." After three years at the Royal College of Art, she began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism. Now she lives in a bone-white flat with white-painted floors as stark as her work. She designs on graph paper, often resorts to math books for inspiration, turns the actual execution over to apparently myopic artisans to reproduce on canvas...