Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large flat-bed truck with sound equipment moved into position, and the advance man got to work. "Meet and greet the next governor of the state of New York"--it came out like W.C. Fields doing the Annunciation...
...special Jeep fitted with a hand rail, Johnson and Westmoreland reviewed the troops, then proceeded to a flat-bed truck draped with blue-and-white bunting and fitted out as a speakers' stand. On the stand were Ky, Thieu and Lodge, who had arrived earlier. Before he began to speak, Johnson handed out three Distinguished Service Crosses, a Navy Cross (the nation's second highest decorations, after the Medal of Honor) and a Silver Star to five...
Soft-drink manufacturers find occasional flat spots among the bubbles. Low-calorie drinks have yet to catch on abroad. Manufacturers are constantly concerned about tax increases by envious governments. Last week in Italy, the Chamber of Deputies voted to increase the cola tax from 5.2% to 15.6% in order to raise money for new schools. Another problem, with can and vending-machine sales still limited, is the shortage and high cost of glass bottles. In Uruguay, for instance, a soft drink costs 110 if consumed on the spot but 180 if the customer wants to take the bottle with...
...erotomaniac" whom Brook equipped with a perpetual erection, urges Charlotte to return to Caen; he forgets himself and nearly rapes her. Sade is whipped -- in London and New York with Corday's flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements -- all played by a writhing tableau of mental patients...
...film-making aims for a similar scope, spewing forth spectacle and color everywhere. But Hawaii falls flat on its face on both counts. Far from achieving any dramatic or visual size, Hawaii is only an omnibus of low-level emotional and physical discomforts: boredom, embarrassment, seasickness, minor bruises, labor pains, first degree burns, and others on a similar scale...