Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pulled out the victory, which is important, but it definitely wasn't pretty," said captain Mike Zimmerman. "We've been playing flat. We didn't play well in the first half, but we were better in the fourth quarter...
Three plays later, on 3rd-and-10, Vena connected with Hill once more, this time hitting the flanker in the left flat at the 15-yard line...
...watching, he harbored no such illusions about his address to the U.N. General Assembly Monday. Good thing. With the live speech pre-empted by the videotape on all but one news channel (CNN affiliate Headline News), almost nobody noticed that Clinton's eyes were bleary and his voice flat, or that the President seemed a little weary -- despite the standing ovation that greeted him -- to be leading an international war on terrorism...
...second problem concerns the efficacy of our policies. Even though the public generally regards the "War on Drugs" and other counternarcotics efforts as positive solutions to the U.S.'s drug woes, our international drug strategy of the past decade has fallen flat on its face. Coletta Youngers of the Washington Office on Latin America has written that "U.S. taxpayers have provided nearly $290 billion for the war on drugs, yet cocaine and heroine are more readily available, and at cheaper prices, than ever before...
Harvard's efforts to attract more minority coaches have fallen flat, because they have uniformly failed to strike at the root at the problem: the largely white "good old boy" network of former athletes, friends and coaching colleagues through which Harvard finds and hires its coaches...