Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat refusal to be brushed off lightly was having its effect. Stassenites claimed growing strength, spreading out from Minnesota through the upper Mississippi Valley, into the prairie and border states, with tentacles reaching into New England and the Pacific Northwest. The pros could dismiss much of that as sheer partisan exuberance. But a Gallup poll a fortnight ago showed 44% of G.O.P. voters approving his policies, only 21% opposed (for Dewey, 74%; opposed...
Schubert: Quartet in E Flat Major (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). The freshness and tunefulness of Schubert at 20, without the skill and maturity of Schubert at 30. Performance: excellent...
Mikkola praised Ted Withington's 49 flat anchor leg in the mile relay, and said that Captain Wes Flint would be much fresher for the IC4A's on May 30 and 31. Trailing the Crimson Saturday were Navy (43 1/2), Army (34 1/2), Penn (29 1/2), Yale (24 1/2), Columbia (19), Princeton (16), Cornell (13 1/2), and Dartmouth...
...lives alone in a book-lined Chelsea flat, rides before breakfast when she can spare the time, puts in an anonymous day's work in the Economist's poky offices, over a teashop in the Strand. She is an inveterate, if slightly wistful, operagoer. She lunches and dines with politicians and economists, who admire her intellectual footwork without mistaking her for a heavyweight. She went on the BBC's board of governors last year and had to give up broadcasting...
Solid Reality. Joseph Arthur Rank is a burly grandfather's-clock of a man, at 59 tick-tock solemn and sure, and rather bumblingly humorous when wound up. He stands 6 ft. 1 in. with his limp brown hair stuck down flat, and bulks a solid 15 stone (210 lbs.). He resembles General de Gaulle, except that he does not share the look of a supercilious camel. His great tired nose droops even lower than De Gaulle's. It curls under just in time to disclose an uncertain mustachelet which changes position with each shave...