Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quick, for instance, to criticize Abe Fortas' appointment as Chief Justice. Nixon, who won fewer than 1% of the Jewish votes in a recent Michigan survey (v. 20% for Rocky), thereby threatened to sap his appeal to that group even further. His attempts at small talk fall flat. On a Portland television program, he told listeners his secret for staying trim. "I eat proteins," he said. "I eat a lot of cheese. Cottage cheese. I eat cottage cheese until it runs out my ears. And one thing I do that makes it not too bad is I put ketchup...
...long ago in their own minds. But there remained some sticking points in medical ethics. How to determine the death of the donor? On three criteria there was general agreement: The patient must no longer have any natural heartbeat, or respiration, or reflexes. Beyond that, he must have a "flat" electroencephalogram-no "brain wave" activity-but for how long? After the closed sessions in Cape Town, all that Spokesman Cooley could say was: "We have reached some agreement as to the nature of brain death...
Father Damien had no problems regarding the donor. "The donor," he wrote, "is in no way 'sacrificed' by the doctors. He has already been in a closed circuit [heart-lung machine] for days, and is therefore already dead (flat electroencephalogram, etc.). His survival is artificial. So, no problem...
...somebody down there mercifully did something to get us out of the jam. Landing orders crackled over the radio. Heaving at the controls-Soviet planes have no power boost-Egorov swung out of the holding pattern, popped his dive brakes, flattened out and bored straight for J.F.K. We flat-hatted over Long Island, made a sharp turn to a little-used runway and touched down at about 220 m.p.h.-much faster than the Boeing 707's 175-m.p.h. landing speed-and as smooth as butter...
...group consisted of two violinists, Alexander Schneider and Isadore Cohen, one violist, Samuel Rhodes, and two cellists, Leslie Parnas and Robert Sylvester. They performed the String Quarter in E major, Opus 17, No. 1 by Hayden, Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563, by Mozart, and Cello Quintet in C major, Opus 163, by Shubert. Of the musicians, the most distinguished was Alexander Schneider, who, with wirey grey-black hair and metal rimmed glasses, sat perched on the edge of his chair, playing with never-failing energy, expression, and accuracy...