Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mention of Japan conjures up visions of superfast trains and a superefficient railroad system. To a degree, the image is justified. The futuristic Shinkansen, or "bullet" trains, whisk passengers as far as 735 miles from Tokyo to Fukuoka City in the southernmost main island of Kyushu in six hours flat amid plush comfort. That trip costs only $31.15 for a one-way economy-class ticket with a $20.70 surcharge for first-class...
Muffins Fall Flat...
Carter's childhood dream of attending the Naval Academy was disturbed by his fear that he might not be able to pass the physical, because of the malocclusion of his teeth and his slight case of flat feet. Typically, and no doubt fruitlessly, he rolled his fallen arches over Coke bottles for some time before his first physical in hope of correcting nature's error. A Congressman got him his appointment to the academy...
Brokaw dutifully read the words "screws" and "shacks up" on the air. That decided the issue for the NBC Nightly News, which also quoted Carter flat out. But not for ABC, which did not make up its mind to allow Anchor Man Harry Reasoner to quote Carter in full until 15 minutes before that network's Evening News went on the air. At CBS, Walter Cronkite grandpaternally refrained, saying only that Carter used "words mild for Playboy but perhaps a little racy for Sunday school...
...miniature Dutch interior to be viewed through eyeholes. So complete is the illusion that one cannot guess, without taking the lid off the box, that these stable objects- the chair, the dog, the tile floor - that seem to have the clearness and density of the real world are painted flat, a jumble of skewed angles involuntarily assembled...