Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it occupied in the world at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one; it has also lost the passion for experimentation that distinguished it during the '20s. The literature of our country appears today to all the world as infinitely poorer, more flat and worthless than it is in reality, than it would look if it were not being restricted. I propose that the congress should demand and obtain the abolition of all censorship-open or concealed-of artistic works...
...addition to the element of surprise, there is the excitement of an in-the-flesh appearance. Harvard will not confer the degree on anyone who does not show up in person to receive it. If a flat tire on the highway prevents a recipient from appearing at the morning check-in, he does not get his degree. (He would probably be invited back the following year, however.) In 1901, President McKinley was voted a degree, but didn't show up. He didn...
...Carlos and Smith both wore new Puma shoes with soles studded with 68 needle-like spikes designed especially for the composition track that is an exact replica of the running surface at Mexico City. Questad ran in regulation shoes. And Winner Carlos insisted that he could have run 20-flat barefoot...
...surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children playing a game evoke the whole mysterious mosaic of human diversity. The interior decoration of an old thief's brand-new flat hits just the right level of department-store-modern respectability...
...like the idea of funny fiction," says Wilfrid Sheed. "When I started writing, my first impulse was toward humor, but I soon learned that I wanted to use it for serious purposes." Sheed's first models were the "flat but musical" styles of such Americans as James Thurber and Sherwood Anderson; later, he added the English writers Cyril Connolly and E. M. Forster. Now he describes his fictional ideal as "Flaubert and James with the language of Wodehouse and Perelman...