Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that he would win Illinois. But in Illinois, farmers were slicing down the fat lead that he had piled up in Chicago. In pivotal Minnesota, Kennedy's lead was down to a bare 30,000. With these developments obviously in mind, Vice President Nixon refused to make a flat concession when he went off to bed. Kennedy announced through Press Aide Pierre Salinger that he, too, was off to bed. That left a bleary-eyed nation sipping coffee by its television sets and noting, as the hour drew to a close, that Kennedy's popular vote lead...
...wonder, then, that, totting up its scores of 200 national anthems that Navy ships play on official courtesy calls to foreign ports, the Admiralty this year discovered that it lacked an up-to-date version of Muscat's. The only version available was a B-flat clarinet score. The Admiralty asked the Foreign Office to forward the score to its man in Muscat for verification...
...Crimson came at 1:25 when outside left Chris Martin dribbled in on the far left and fired a shot at Brown goalie Pete Gilson. Sweeney, in the midst of a gang-up near the goal, slipped in the mud but tipped the ball into the goal with a flat, slow-rolling shot. Gilson was caught on the wrong side of the crease...
...Inevitably, people will say they liked the book better. It was a thoughtful study of the police mind and the one thing that destroys it: human feeling. In the movie, on the other hand, thanks partly to Director Ladislao Vajda, Duerrenmatt's Gothic involutions have been pressed as flat as the celluloid they lie on. Even so, the film has an original (if somewhat perverted) air about it, and works up an uncommon amount of suspense...
...tuning fork lies flat across the watch and carries small, conical magnets on its tines. When the tines vibrate, the magnets poke into tiny coils, generating a very small pulse of electric current that goes to a transistor and triggers it so as to permit a somewhat larger current to flow through the coils from a battery. The energized coils react with the magnets and keep the fork vibrating at a steady 360 cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel...