Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the board, on prices, on wages, on interest rates, on profits and dividends and rents. I say enough is enough." The sparse crowd in Skokie, Ill., roared back its approval one snowy night last week. But earlier that same day in Chicago, the same Kennedy line had fallen flat...
...seldom spells out his economic plans. He says that Congress should "breathe new life into the supply side" and that Government should "retool the American economy." When Kennedy is preaching to the converted, he sounds fiery and persuasive; when he encounters a skeptical middle-class audience, his voice goes flat and he often seems to lose interest. Kennedy's fervent defense of Government programs such as nutrition for the elderly and low-income housing please those directly affected, but they also confirm his image as a big spender. Alone among all major candidates, Kennedy denounces the resolve to have...
...flat voice of the court clerk filled the hushed courtroom of Chicago's venerable Criminal Court House. "We, the jury, find the defendant John Gacy guilty of the murder of . . ."-and then she would add a name. Twenty-two times she repeated that litany and then, because the other victims still had not been identified, she began adding numbers-eleven in all. Frowning slightly, the chunky, moon-faced defendant sat slumped in his chair. Moments earlier, walking into the courtroom, he had turned to his two gloomy attorneys. "Cheer up, boys," he joked, "and keep a straight face...
...twenty-year layoff from active participation barely affected Oyakawa, who in the mid-1970s turned in a respectable 1:03 for the 100-yd. backstroke, just five seconds off the 58 flat that won him a third consecutive NCAA title in 1955, when he captained the Ohio State Buckeyes' ninth national swim crown...
Frederick kept quantities of freshly-cut flowers in his bright and airy flat, which he decorated with nineteenth century mahogany and oriental rugs over parquet. A heavily rouged black man in a gold harem outfit, who had done his hair in one long, thin braid down his back, served tea to this lively, well-mannered bunch. "That's Oscar," whispered Alexis. "He helps Frederick out around the house...