Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sample: a brother who died without the pony he'd always wanted, because his father had to meet the grocery bills). At other times, some well-tried statement that had produced yelps of approval before ("It's not Jack's money, it's yours") fell flat. More and more, he focused attention on Cabot Lodge; more and more, he leaned on the magic of the Eisenhower name to show that a Nixon vote is a vote for continuity, experience, and a team...
...case of The Alamo, forever is almost attained in one projection; the film runs three hours and 38 minutes, including an intermission. The first three hours, moreover, are as flat as Texas. Plenty happens: a seduction, an orgy, a murder, a battle royal in a barroom. But it all seems to have happened before, in some other John Wayne western, and in any case most of the action has nothing to do with the Alamo...
...John Buchan. The hero (Kenneth More), while strolling in Kensington Gardens, sees a nanny struck down by a hit-and-run driver and pursues her runaway pram. Instead of a baby he finds a gun inside. Next day the nanny, recovered from the accident, visits the hero's flat and announces herself as a British agent who has just about got the goods on a big international spy ring. But when the hero leaves the room to arrange a spot of tea, somebody sneaks in the window and scrags poor nanny. The hero chases the killers to Scotland...
John Steigman, Pennsylvania head coach, was hardly the picture of contentment after Saturday's game. Between puffs of his cigar, the losing coach gave short, flat replies in a tight-lipped whisper to reporters' questions at the post-game press conference...
...test run, San Francisco's new Fire Engine 14 surged effortlessly up the steep streets of Nob Hill. On the flat, it accelerated from a cold start to 50 m.p.h. in 45 sec. (v. 60 sec. for older models). The new American-La France Turbo Chief pumper, which was undergoing performance tests in San Francisco last week, got its impressive pep from a gas turbine engine, the first ever used in a fire truck, and the latest of the expanding uses of gas turbines. Although gas turbines first came of age in turboprop planes, they promise to have...