Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Speech for anywhere from 18 to 50 minutes, depending on the size and estimated temper of his audiences. Sometimes a few score, sometimes a hundred-odd men, women & children stood staring and listening. The horns of a public-address system, mounted on a sedan, lifted the Senator's flat Ohio voice above the din of Ohio's Main Streets...
Dangling from multi-colored parachutes, 4,100 men and their jeeps, trucks and artillery dropped onto flat, dry rice fields. Within an hour the drops had been completed and Red troops in the drop area driven off. Within another hour the paratroopers had sealed off the two highways and rail lines along which the routed North Koreans had hoped to escape from Pyongyang. Said MacArthur: "It looked perfect to me. It looks like it closed the trap...
Steve Kurtzman ran deep into Adams territory near the close off the game. The Elephants came close to another score when Kurtzman passed to Hank Greenberg in the flat. A penalty and the end of the game prevented the score...
With the eight-foot zombie were all his worldly possessions: a hollow palmetto trunk tuned to b flat, a bulbous cast-iron kettle, three Hopalong Cassidy dolls and a package of insect-mounting pins, and a shrunken cannibal head...
Boris Aronson's sets are wonderfully faithful to the Odetsian scene. The squalor of a one-room flat is accented by a flowering red plant, an empty stage by a dramatic shadow. In a Broadway dressing room there is a feeling of glitter. Mr. Odets has directed the play himself, and except for a slow paced first act, his staging is effective...