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Word: flatfeet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bernard DeVoto, "another Stevenson speech assistant," said McCarthy, once "denounced the FBI as nothing but 'college-trained flatfeet,' and said 'I would refuse to cooperate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Standard Effort | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...month booking clerk at the old Fourth District police station, in the heart of Kansas City's Irish district. Two years later he was secretary to the director of police, an old Pendergast hack named Otto P. (Onie) Higgins. The ward bosses, the flatfeet and the job hunters who came to deal with Higgins called Bill Boyle "Onie's Diplomatic Doorman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boyle's Law | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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