Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops in the Delta, and the total could rise far above that. Most of the troops will probably be from the Army, though the Marines have long chafed to get into the Delta action. In any case, the campaign will be no picnic. A steam-hot, table-flat expanse of mangrove swamps and paddy-fields often standing in water up to a man's neck, the Delta is rife with an estimated 80,000 veteran Viet Cong guerrillas...
...unfortunate name for a military bastion-Waterloo. Should the general accept Chièvres, farmers of the region will be no happier than he. One native, whose land stands to be plowed under, muttered: "I used to throw nails on the road during the war to give the Nazis flat tires. If Chape comes I'll throw some more...
Directors say that Heston is the most conscientious actor in town. He subjected himself to a crash reading program on the Dead Sea Scrolls and a shelf full of theological tomes before tackling The Ten Commandments. He has uncomplainingly walked sandalless on his flat feet up Mount Sinai, and for his role of Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy jammed a plastic noodle into his nose to push it properly out of joint. He took a lengthy driver's course in the chariot for Ben-Hur, polished an English accent with a speech teacher and nightly tapings...
...studying sociology, expects to work with delinquent girls. A widow, she decided that "the show must go on," concedes that "there will never be any more stage-door Johnnies for me-but there won't be any rocking chairs either." She dramatizes the point by pressing her palms flat on the floor without bending her knees...
Smiling but Silent. On opening night, however, the wondering quickly turned to wonder. Seated at the foot of the altar in the Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked...