Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adet Lin, 23, eldest daughter of best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang, broke the news in Boston that she had been secretly married a fortnight to Richard Biow, 26, son of a prosperous Manhattan adman. In the couple's top-floor flat near the elevated and Boston's waterfront, Husband Biow told the press: "I guess what drew us together was-well, just our interest in each other." Said surprised Philosopher Lin (The Importance of Living) of his literary daughter (Our Family) : "She will come home after a short period-I have no doubt...
...outer yards, tower men set the switches for the Advance to roll onto the express track. Soon after, the nine-car Exposition Flyer wormed its scheduled way onto the same westward ribbon. The pair of silver streamliners whooshed along the flat Illinois roadbed at 80 m.p.h., three minutes apart...
...center of a ten-foot circle, he bounded out with a straight gait in 30 seconds flat, as 100 fans cheered. There were no rules governing the race: one contestant dropped dead of an overdose of adrenalin. Arkansas Express will be entered in turtledom's Kentucky Derby, the sixth annual turtle trudge at the University of Detroit this week...
Anybody who had seen the winter wheat knew a few weeks ago that this would be a fine crop-if all went well. There had been grave doubts, two months ago. Kansas, Oklahoma and the flat Texas Panhandle had had a long dry spell, even an ominous dust storm. But in mid-February Nature had relented, and over most of the great winter wheat belt had come gentle sizzle-sozzle rains. In most of Kansas and Oklahoma, the wheat was now high enough to hide a bounding jack rabbit...
...girdle to round out flat buttocks...