Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performances are all individually creditable, but Will Lee and Bernard Wurger are too high-pitched for the rest of the cast, and particularly for Eda Reiss Merin's well-controlled, neatly uncliched portrayal of Bessie. The set, a brown concoction involving one compound flat and a good deal of well-chosen furniture, is just fine...
...third vital area in which immigrants have the most to complain about is housing. Only 11 per cent of the "for rent" advertising does not specifically exclude colored people, and two thirds of those exclude them in practice. "It is virtually impossible to get a furnished flat for a Pakistani or West Indian," one real estate agent admitted. Real estate agents themselves often give fewer addresses to colored customers. Also it is much more difficult for an immigrant to obtain a mortgage, and rates are almost invariably higher. The last alternative, public housing projects (council houses) take a much larger...
...demonstrators and splitting them in half. A girl was slapped on the side of the head with a rifle and all of a sudden coke bottles, beer cans, pieces of wood, and stones flew into the phalanx of soldiers. One trooper crumpled when he caught a beer can flat in the face. The people in front started begging with those behind not to throw anything because they were the ones who took the punishment, but it happened again and again. "If one more person throws something, I'm going to get up and leave," a girl whimpered. Another boy, right...
...contrast to Skelm's flat terrain, Runcorn's landscape is hilly and varied. The Manchester ship canal runs deep nearby with ocean liners and oil tankers: the Bridgewater Canal rolls slowly through the city with motorboats and home-made craft. Runcorn's famous landmark is the castle of King Alfred's daughter, Elfleda, that now looks out upon the rich Cheshire farms to the south and the Liverpool-Runcorn Bridge to the north...
...Hoffman, who had broken up a pass in his flat plays before, blitzed on the next play and dumped the unsuspecting Robertson. Hoffman stormed in from the blind side again on the third-and-32 situation to bury the Big Red passer for good...