Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakfast next day, Belinda fell to the floor, was rushed to a Rome hospital and stomach-pumped of an excess of barbiturates. Filippo rushed after her and created such a scene that attendants had to remove him bodily. When his wife and her lawyer appeared next morning at the flat he had shared with Belinda, Prince Orsini tamely let himself be led home, but then-in a burst of anger-slashed his wrists with a razor blade...
...bridge spans a small brook that runs into the Black Sea, two Turkish infantrymen stood guard this week. Their posture was rigidly prescribed: each had one foot on the bridge and one foot on Turkish soil, one hand behind his back and one on a rifle topped by a flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier between Russia...
...businessmen who pride themselves on inside dope, Wall Streeters were caught flat-footed last week. The Federal Reserve Board announced what no one on the street had expected: a cut in margin requirements (money that must be put up to buy stock on credit) from 70% to 50%. For a few heady hours next day, the market marched uphill. But before day's end it had marched right down again. It closed the week at 444.12 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 5.44 points, mostly on gains made before the announcement...
...show that non-New York residents may be paying 45% more New York tax than residents with equal income and number of dependents. One big reason: out-of-state commuters may deduct only expenses directly connected with New York earnings. The great majority of them may claim only a flat 10% deduction on gross income or $500, whichever is less. But a New York resident may deduct interest, property taxes, medical costs, some life insurance, gasoline and sales taxes...
Like Gittel Mosca, the girl she plays in Two for the Seesaw, Actress Anne Bancroft speaks pure Bronxese with expansive gestures to match. Like Gittel, she likes bulky sweaters, long black stockings and flat shoes. With this background, she needed just one reading to win the part from Producer Fred Coe. Says Director Arthur Penn: "She didn't even read for me-I was sold on sight. She is Gittel...