Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he arrived from Russia, he was out to burn up the U.S. with his razzle-dazzle speed. In his debut with the New York Philharmonic, he raced through the Tchaikovsky B flat minor concerto so fast that gouty Sir Thomas Beecham would not even try to keep up with him. By 1935, in the heyday of his elegant pink period (when he indulged in pink striped shirts and red ties), Horowitz was playing more than 70 concerts a year, and grossing about $300,000. Then he folded, up, with appendicitis complicated by phlebitis...
...buildings likewise are kept fairly low. Horizontal lines predominate, and the low flat roofs minimize the size of the buildings as well as provide the most practical kind of covering, adding to the effect of landscaping and the spatial layout...
...general sailed his flat-brimmed, Pershing-style khaki campaign hat on to a table, and sagged into a chintz-covered chair. Scowling across the parlor of his Managua, hilltop mansion, Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza grumbled: "I did everything I could to prevent what is coming, but there's no way to keep the peace in Central America. For years Nicaragua's Guardia National has stood like a Chinese wall in Central America, stopping trouble from going north and south. God knows I'm a patient man, but there is nothing...
...least $10 an hour, possibly $25 or even $50. At five times a week for 100 weeks (an analysis can easily go on that long), the total cost may run to $5,000 or more. At the Menninger Foundation, the minimum charge (for the 65 hospitalized patients) is a flat-rate $650 a month; special treatments like psychoanalysis cost extra. The mass of mentally ill, in their lives of quiet and not-so-quiet desperation, have nowhere to go but the state institutions. Some of these are good, some not much better than Hogarth's 18th Century Bedlam...
...sheet and strip, which are used mainly in autos, refrigerators, washing machines and other such items, would certainly be painful to users. One bodymaker estimated that the cost of an auto made from steel bought from Great Lakes (which supplies about one-sixth of the industry's flat-rolled steel) would go up about...