Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specialist in detecting when a subject is trying to deceive his questioners. Speaking with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...
INTEREST RATES. Short-term rates are flat; long-term rates are coming down. Last week the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. sold $100 million worth of bonds at an 8.34% yield, the lowest rate for any Bell offering in two years. Although Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has set a target of 4.5% to 7.5% annual growth in the nation's money supply, officials of the Federal Reserve have privately indicated that it will permit money growth to hit a rate of 8% to 10% for two or three months if necessary to keep interest rates...
Since characterization in Tots is something less than two-dimensional, only the one-liners distinguish one member of the cast from another. Flo has the best, and the thief in a flat sub-plot, Jerry Mander (Tim Feran) has a lot of the really bad puns and low humor (in response to Henna's rejecting him because he's stupid, he says "I'll be partially sage, Rosemary...in time...
...LaZebnik has contrived a few good songs and some priceless comic sequences. Unfortunately, though, his creative abandon is undisciplined by a critical eye; and, as a result, the wheat of LeZebnik's on-the-mark parodies remains mixed with the chaff of puns and punch lines that fall pitifully flat...
There is no place in college hockey for such behavior, but while the department's dragnet has succeeded in eliminating such vicious attacks at Harvard, it has also left Section 18 about as flat as a day-old pitcher of beer from Father...