Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DRINK THE WATER takes a Newark caterer and his family into difficulties behind the Iron Curtain in Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 4-9; Denver, Aug. 4-9; Winooski, Vt., Aug. 12-23; Weston, Vt., Aug. 14-17; Fishkill, N.Y., Aug. 19-24; and Flat Rock...
...number of holes I have dug in the ground to conceal my jam jars full of "dangerous" and "doubtful" manuscripts. I couldn't keep them in my desk because whenever I wasn't there my flat could be broken into and searched and my manuscripts confiscated, as happened with Solzhenitsyn and many others. My writing desk, in fact, had no drawers at all. The Russian earth itself served as my desk and my safe. It became a real mania for me to be able to see my writing published in the form in which I had written...
...from the moon was triumphantly smooth. Of course, even after lift-off and redocking, there were still the dangers of the homeward trip. Control failures could cause the spacecraft to re-enter the earth's atmosphere at too steep an angle and burn to a cinder, or at so flat an angle that it would bounce off the outer fringes of the atmosphere far into space. There its oxygen would be exhausted before it could loop back to the earth...
...funding committee must be separate from its lobbying operation; in practice, however, the division is strictly a bookkeeping procedure. It is virtually impossible, moreover, to ascertain which candidate receives exactly how much from AMPAC. Following the letter of the law, the A.M.A. reports simply that it has sent a flat amount to a state chapter. Individual members are told not to contribute more than $99 to the A.M.A. national fund, thereby excluding themselves from the federal law which requires that contributors giving $100 or more must be named. In any event, state-level gifts are hard to trace: only...
...also a mystical speaker of truth whose hallucinations are eerily accurate. She hears voices, consults cards, studies astrological charts. She and Martha sit down and reread the classics with "openings in their brains. What they searched for was everywhere, all around them, like a finer air shimmering in the flat air of every...