Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George "Kubla" Kuhn, flashy right end, grabbed a shaky pass to the flat and raced forty yards to the Lowell 15 before a fleet Bellboy brought him to earth. Several plays later Tom Lacy plunged over for the touchdown from the one-yard stripe...
...Partisan. This was high talk. All the way across the country, in plains, mountains, woods, cities, people listened, went away thinking. This sort of talk drew no applause. Whether it fell flat or sank deep, only Election Day would prove. But the cheers came only for griddle-hot partisan talk, and Willkie's strength or weakness as a candidate still lay in the fact that he is a reasonable man who doesn't know how to talk partisan politics. Too reasonable, said Roosevelt-haters...
German concentrations as far south as Lorient led to a revival of the suspicion that Ireland might receive the first blow. Nothing had been heard from the huge concentration of troops and planes in Norway, except for an unconfirmed rumor that Aberdeen had been cut flat by bombs. Last week's strange news that the Finns were permitting German troops passage to Norway did not ease nervousness about the North. London heard and believed a new tale of attempt at the Strait of Dover last week, which was said to have failed because the R. A. F. shot down...
...former sponsor Bristol-Myers insisted that his hour show be reduced to 30 minutes, he starts on a CBS network for Texas Co. opposite Eddie Cantor on NBC. This season, as Bristol-Myers' substitute for Allen, Cantor will be spurred on by a contract that calls for a flat $10,000 a week, an extra $200 for every point over 20 he registers with C. A. B. (Crossley). Whatever his incentive, the going will be tough. With only half the time on NBC that Allen has on CBS, Cantor will have to buck one of the most ingenious wags...
...induced by insulin, metrazol, azoman and electric shock have improved many schizophrenics. Last week Dr. Edward Adam ("Streck") Strecker, a U. of Pa. psychiatric bigwig, described a new brain operation for schizophrenia. It is called pre-frontal leucotomy, involves drilling a small hole in the temple, inserting a narrow, flat-bladed instrument with which a fan-shaped cut is made in the brain lobes...