Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the President was introduced, the crowd had begun to thin out. The President's high, flat voice was strong as he emphasized his theme: "We are determined to remain strong . . . to exercise [our] leadership on behalf of a world of peace. . . ." Slowly he measured off the three points on which he said U.S. power for peace depends: 1) unification of the armed services; 2) temporary extension of Selective Service; 3) universal military training. "Now, even in an election year like this, nobody should play politics with the national safety." There was no audible response...
...voice men's chorus sang: Though they had wings on the brain, They all went flat on their nose. . . . Narrator Orson Welles reverently intoned: "Wait, I thought I heard a child crying...
...fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...
Eight-page papers had been the rule in the "Teens thanks to the activities of "Busy" Board members who garnered advertisements from all over the country. A larger paper was called for, and the purchase of the Crimson's present flat bed press during the year 1919-20 made possible the present 12 by 18 inch page...
...life, as in death, Tai Li had been a partner of secrecy and violence. He was a legend-to his enemies, an Oriental Himmler, Plehve and Torquemada combined; to his friends, a ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His flat brown nose, wide-set black eyes and triangular ebony brows had appeared in few published photos. His birthplace was Chekiang, Chiang Kai-shek's native province. He studied at Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang was president...