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Word: flatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show confirms what one had already suspected. It is bound to be a hit, because Benton was a dreadful artist most of the time. He was not vulgar in the tasteful, closeted way of an Andrew Wyeth. He was flat-out, lapel-grabbing vulgar, incapable of touching a pictorial sensation without pumping and tarting it up to the point where the eye wants to cry uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tarted Up Till the Eye Cries Uncle | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...need. But it MIT did not have ROTC, or if it were two hours--instead of 20 minutes--away from the Harvard campus, the outcry we are now hearing would be silenced. The University would then simply have to allow ROTC official status on campus, as it could not flat out deny students such an important financial aid opportunity...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: ROTC's Already Here | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...slander with a response. Jackson's very message is the opposite of everything the Nazis stood for--he may be the most committed defender of equality, dignity and freedom today. However one interprets his verbal slips or political positions on Israel, comparing him in any way to Hitler is flat wrong...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Meaning of Never Forget | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

...were a little flat in the first game," Prior said. "It wasn't that we were outplayed, and it wasn't that we were playing badly. We just didn't do what...

Author: By Jonathan D. Unger, | Title: Batswomen Share Jumbo Double-Dip | 4/26/1989 | See Source »

...fought hardest over the years against the Government's calling nicotine addictive, he stated high up in his Surgeon General's report that nicotine is addictive. "They absolutely hated it," he gloats. He said the companies' claims that science cannot say with certainty that tobacco causes cancer were "flat-footed lies" and that sending cigarettes to the Third World was "the export of death, disease and disability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Doctor Prescribes Hard Truth: C. EVERETT KOOP | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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