Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world events for the lay person. The excerpt, void of political jargon, punctuated by imagery and vivid characterizations of political figures, moves along like a well-written novel. I only wish my college history textbooks were written in this fashion. Who says that past political events have to be flat...
...fighting inflation, we do not sacrifice construction jobs." Carter forecast that his windfall profits tax on crude oil will finance energy programs that will amount to "one of the biggest construction projects in world history-on a scale comparable to building our interstate highway system." Despite such rhetoric, his flat delivery was received mostly with polite applause...
Beefy, forceful Premier Masayoshi Ohira is affectionately, and sometimes not so affectionately, known as "the Bull.' After last week's parliamentary elections he appeared to be about as invincible and fire-breathing as Ferdinand. Gloated one opposition leader: "This election was his idea completely, and he fell flat on his face...
...skeptic who contemplates Mailer's labors in orchestrating all these interviews is tempted to think that he deserves the Nobel Prize for Typing. But Mailer does not work stupidly; the flat, banal voices mustered here soon become haunting. The book is like an immense issue of the National Enquirer being endlessly explicated until it is forced to yield some truth. Gilmore's story is a sort of immense white-trash saga; he accomplishes his victory even in death by calling down all kinds of electronic gods to attend: photographers, wire services, television networks, and at last even...
...Israel in the hope of winning Israeli recognition. Arafat immediately called a meeting of the P.L.O. Central Council for a verdict. "I don't need advice from Sadat or anybody else on how to run our affairs," Arafat is reported to have told the council members, recommending a flat rejection. The council turned down the Sadat proposal without bothering to take a vote...