Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Only minutes after Charles de Gaulle opened the meeting, Khrushchev, in flat, unemotional tones, began to read off perhaps the most intemperate pronouncement the world had heard from a major statesman since Adolf Hitler died in his Berlin bunker. He denounced the U-2 flight as "aggressive . . . treacherous . . . incompatible with the elementary requirements of the maintenance of normal relations between states in times of peace . . ." He rattled his rockets ("The Soviet government reserves the right in all such instances to take the necessary retaliatory measures against those who shall violate the U.S.S.R.'s national sovereignty") and then...
...decathlon champion, heaved a shot at the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union, which has barred him from further amateur competition because he is now a professional actor. "We can't catch the Russians in sports until the A.A.U. changes its rules on amateurs.'' said he. Mathias' flat prediction on this year's Olympic games: "The Russians will...
...discovered in 1933 by a local schoolmaster walking his class along a peninsula jutting into Lake Biskupin. Because of recent dredging of the Gasawka River, the lake's level had fallen 10 to 15 feet, and the schoolmaster spotted long rows of logs sticking out of a mud flat at a 45° angle. He reported his discovery, and presently Director Josef Kostrzewski of the Poznan museum came down for a look. Preliminary digging showed that the peninsula had once been an island completely covered by a walled village...
...Test. As for flat "misstatements," Birmingham's leaders deny that the views of John Crommelin, a retired Navy admiral running for the U.S. Senate on an anti-Negro, anti-Semitic platform, have, as Salisbury wrote, "a wider acceptance than many Alabamans will admit." Fact: running in a gubernatorial election in 1958, Extremist Crommelin polled 2,245 out of 681,000 votes...
...Hansford Johnson, whose books, largely about marriage and the private worlds of modern people, are less ambitious but far better crafted than her husband's; her most recent: The Unspeakable Skipton, a witty, waspish caricature of the famed adventurer, "Baron Corvo." The Snows share a ten-room London flat and a 6½-year-old son. Snow likes to be in the worldly swim and throws parties conspicuously free of fellow novelists. Sir Charles is a shade stuffy about most 20th century authors; of another practicing panoramist, Lawrence Durrell, he says: "A bit like eating a box of soft...