Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown course is hard, flat, and fast -- perfectly suited for Ennis, a speedster who has run a 9:05 two-mile...
...Second Worst Job. The field is wide open. One reason is that anyone who really qualifies for the job can probably earn more in corporate life than the flat $125,000 that the Big Board presidency pays. Franklin Roosevelt once described the post as "the worst job in the world next to mine." In financial circles, it is commonly said that "Funston has 1,366 bosses," a reference to the exchange's 1,366 often warring members. The exchange's constitution allots so much power to its board of governors that the president is often regarded as merely...
...Connally's wrist was such, said the doctor who treated him, that Exhibit 399 had apparently begun to tumble end over end when it emerged from his chest and that it crashed blunt-end first into his wrist. There was some damage on the bullet's flat...
...sweltering day in July 1912, Nurse Sanger threaded her way through pushcarts to a cramped flat in a Grand Street tenement. Sadie Sachs, 28, wife of a truck driver and mother of three, was near death as the result of a self-induced abortion. She pleaded with Nurse Sanger and the doctor: "Another baby will finish me. What can I do to prevent it?" The doctor's gruff reply: "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof." Three months later, Sadie Sachs was dead-of another self-induced abortion. Margaret Sanger had a cause...
...into the atmosphere, Apollo reached a speed of 19,000 m.p.h. At an altitude of 218,000 feet, small control rockets were fired, shifting Apollo so that its contoured heat shield provided a small amount of lift. As a result, Apollo literally bounced off the thickening atmosphere like a flat stone skipping across water; it rose to 264,500 feet before beginning to fall once more. The maneuver not only sliced some 3,000 m.p.h. off the craft's dangerously high descent speed but enabled its heat shield to cool before the final plunge through the atmosphere...