Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat, Ohio twang of Taft, it had an unfortunate way of sounding merely "agin." Taft, who had been slow to see the threat of Hitler, was sounding-in his urge for economy-as if he didn't really take Russia's threat too seriously. ("It is possible that the danger, of a crisis is being exaggerated somewhat at the time when appropriations are being sought," he said in a recent speech in Washington. "On the other hand, I may be wrong . . .") He also had a talent for the tactless: "We are paying out more than $12 billion...
...base of the skull and lift hard, pulling the head up and stretching the neck muscles . . . Wiggle the toes inside the shoes. Limbering the big toe can do much towards improving the general feeling of well-being . . . Flabby buttocks have much the same effect on the body as a flat tire has on a car . . . pull them in and up . . . a dozen, two dozen times...
...narrow ledge lying on my stomach, uninjured. I started to rise. I glanced up. I looked into the face of an avalanche. Kendall had slipped, and fallen, too ... rolling down over the same thirty precipitous yards I had traversed . . . Sixteen hundred pounds of solid horseflesh rolled me flat. I could hear my own bones break in a sickening crescendo ... I lay paralyzed with pain-twenty-three of twenty-four ribs broken...
Martinis & Wisdom. In the end, Shireen collects the wages of sin. She loses her husband and her peace of mind, and is left with nothing but a shrinking money bag, a swank flat, and what passes for wisdom across dollar Martinis: "Man cannot live by caviar alone...
...evading the draft, writes richly rhetorical verses in which he is not afraid to work with the old human themes-death, war and ambition. Schwartz, a Brooklyn poet on whom the experience of Jewish immigrant life has left an indelible mark of irony, writes poems that are calculatedly flat, wry and witty...