Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the going got tough, Harvard's troops didn't get going--they fell flat. Under Springfield's second-half full-court press, Harvard handed over its seven-point lead, and by the middle of the fourth quarter, the Maroon...
...equally dreadful fate would befall Apollo if it hit the atmosphere at too shallow an angle. Like a flat stone skipping on water, it would bounce off the atmosphere and sail into a large elliptical orbit around the earth. Having shed Apollo's service module before reentry, the astronauts would have insufficient oxygen and electrical power to survive the several hours it might take to return to the atmosphere and land. In Phillips' laconic words, "It's a crew-loss kind of situation...
...position of sergeantpilot. Later he acquired two old Halifax bombers, won some contracts to haul freight during the Berlin blockade, and went on to build an airline. Bamberg became a sterling millionaire. He played polo with Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park, traveled between country manor and luxury London flat in a chauffeured Rolls fitted with telephone, dictating machine and the license plate "H.B. 100." When asked how he had done so well, Bamberg's jaunty reply was: "There's no substitute for getting into business and learning the hard way." Last week, Bamberg, 45, was again learning...
...bogus, his film might have been a macabre little study of a pretty young nymphomaniac and her rich old sadist of a spouse. As it is, Birds in Peru has most of the defects of a very bad home movie; it is unintentionally funny where it is not flat...
When I had done it previously, having aspired to amateur calligraphy in High School, it had taken me about five minutes to carve the FOOL into my arm; Steve, having had no such aspirations, finished the job in twenty seconds flat. Well here we were--not nearly enough blood, forty seconds of film instead of six minutes, no scene whatsoever. Throwing caution to whatever one throws caution to, we tactfully suggested to Steve that he cut a little deeper into the barely perceptible lines. Realizing the essential humor of the situation, he proceeded to re-carve the word, patiently going...