Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burst into tears when a friend repeated to him Soviet Pianist Richter's statement that "his playing excites and moves me as only very few of the greatest have been able to." Later, at a Richter recital, Van sobbed all through the first movement of the Schubert B Flat Sonata. Toward the end of his visit, he confided to a friend what the Russian experience had meant to him. "I tell you," he said, "these are my people. I guess I've always had a Russian heart. I'd give them three quarts of blood and four...
...afternoon beneath a swaying, shading bamboo tree. She looked questioningly at her mother, who informed Hermione Esmerelda that it was late in the afternoon beneath a swaying, shading bamboo tree that grew on the borderline between China and Tibet. Mother also told Hermione that she had four large, flat feet, a short tail, a white body, black legs, black ears, and black circles about her eyes. In short, Hermione was (according to her mother) a perfect ailuropoda melanoleucos and at the very same time a Giant Panda...
...week long Louisville was a country carnival, happily clipping the customers. The town belonged to hotelkeepers with five-buck rooms sold out at $25 a flop, to hash houses peddling 60? breakfasts for $2, to taxi drivers with their meters off, charging fat, flat fees. It belonged to loud, lubricated crowds, to light-fingered dips tiptoeing daintily among the juleps. But right up to post time, the 84th running of the Kentucky Derby belonged to a big-barreled California colt named Silky Sullivan (TIME, March...
...industry formed a united front and showed no signs of giving in, Reuther was forced to modify his position. Last week, in a "four-part antirecession campaign," he offered to extend the current contract for another three months while differences were worked out. Detroit's answer: a flat no. Said G.M.'s Curtice with a snort: "A transparent maneuver to stall negotiations until the 1959 model changeover...
...moon's flat maria (waterless "seas") are almost certainly covered with lava that poured out on the surface billions of years ago, said Astronomer Gerard Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory. In those days, Kuiper told the astronauts at Denver, the moon's interior was kept liquid by radioactivity, so any disturbance, such as a large meteor impact, was likely to cause an upwelling of lava. Kuiper thinks that smooth places on the maria will make firm landing spots for earth's spaceships...