Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, 52, as he wearily prepared to return from Tel Aviv to the word wars at the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan: "If the Arab League made a motion at the U.N. Assembly that the world was flat, they would get 40 votes...
According to Pike, the traditional authoritative sources for Christian doctrine are all suspect. The Bible, for example, is not only shot through with "superstition, sheer evil and flat contradiction," but did not even exist in its present form until several centuries after the founding of Christianity. The bishop similarly dismisses the infallibility of church councils on the ground, among others, that Christian denominations disagree violently on how many there really were; Roman Catholics accept 21 ecclesiastical synods as ecumenical councils, the Greek Orthodox only seven. He also contends that the creeds did not take shape until several centuries after Christ...
...August industrial price surge caught Washington by surprise. Through the months of relative price peace, the Government's inflation-watching machinery has grown rusty. Commerce Secretary Alexander Trowbridge, who had scheduled a routine hold-the-line price pep talk with steelmen in Washington for this week, was caught flat-footed by the bar-products rise. Unless and until the machin ery gets back into well-oiled condition, there are bound to be more squeaks and squawks ahead...
Back in 1940, Dutch-born Psychiatrist Renatus Hartogs suffered a traumatic experience on a Long Island highway. Unable to fix a flat tire, he summoned a garage mechanic...
Inevitably, some of her early engagements were at the unemployment-insurance office, and she had to live in a cold-water flat "where the roaches rattled the dishes." Within three months, though, she was accosted in Greenwich Village by a Hungarian producer named William Gyimes, who looked "like an Oriental-rug salesman." "Hey," he said, "are you an actress?" "He's crazy," she thought. But she said yes and was launched...