Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Armco cited "a lack of support for the Oct. 1 effective date by some competitors." As translated by industry sources, this meant that Chairman William Verity Jr. had become irritated when he learned that some steelmakers were making deals to ship flat-rolled steel to selected customers at the old prices after Oct. 1. Verity's move immediately put pressure on competitors to scrap plans for an increase and thus keep pricing policy out in the open...
When Bob Dole was growing up in Russell on the flat plains of central-western Kansas, the town was enjoying an oil boom. It had started in 1923, the year he was born, after the "Carrie Oswald" well came in. The good times lasted into the '50s, but they bypassed the Doles. The family lived in a tiny, white frame house (since razed) on the north side-the wrong side-of the arrow-straight Union Pacific tracks that cut through the geometric grid of tree-lined streets...
JOHN CONNALLY, 59, was the most apparent loser. Usually a spellbinder, he hurried through a strangely flat address to an underwhelmed convention. His peroration was so gloomy that he sounded like a Texas Spengler: "How long this civilization, this free society of America will exist, I do not know...
...artists in America 200 years ago. Limning, as painting was called, was a trade, like ropemaking or wheelwrighting. To most of the itinerant "house, sign and fancy" painters, it gave a meager living. They shifted from town to town in New England, setting down in wiry outline and crude, flat tones the tight lips and beaky noses of parsons, housewives and merchants. There were no art schools, let alone an academy, and the demand for big canvases of history and myth-which, across the Atlantic, gave art its public necessity-was nil. Europe was very far away...
...most intelligent, honest, noble characters he is trying to say that the situation he has created rises above the mundane, ordinary plot concoctions of pop novels. If the language doesn't clue you in, that fact that Zack and Amiri fall deeply and irrevocably in love in no time flat, and that this passage is an example of their wittiest repartee should tell you that Agnew's implied claim isn't quite true...