Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over five miles away, the scientists lay flat, listening breathlessly to the time signals announced over the radio by Chicago's Dr. Samuel K. Allison: "Minus 15 minutes, minus 14 minutes, minus 13 minutes. . . ." At "minus 45 seconds" a robot mechanism took over the controls and the watchers lived the tensest seconds of their lives...
...bride, in knee-length white lace and satin, was seven minutes late to the wedding, and the bridegroom arrived 21 mintes later (flat tire). Afterwards, every body adjourned to the bride's place of business, Manhattan's Café Society Up town, where 2,000 guests were invited and 3,000 showed up. Then came the blowoff...
Grade A Restitution. In his cheap little flat above a saloon in suburban Floral Park, L.I., "grey, 57-year-old Bertram Campbell happily posed for pictures with his happy family. Bertram Campbell was not ready to forgive everything. Said he: "It was Mr. Dewey's big clean-up campaign. All he wanted was a record of convictions...
Ulithi is a series of flat, palm-dotted islands (strung onto a necklace-shaped atoll). It is 110 miles east of Jap-held Yap, 400 miles southwest of Guam-and 4,000 miles nearer the war than Pearl Harbor. Ulithi was captured without opposition last September by the 321st Regiment of the 81st Infantry Division.* The Japs had just left. Ulithi's great, 112-sq.-mi. anchorage could hold nearly 1,000 ships of the U.S. Fleet-something neither Guam nor Pearl Harbor...
...square deal on Rhodes's part, says Author Cloete, since it gave neither God nor Rhodes the controlling interest). But Kruger lived by the Bible. Rhodes was celibate; Kruger had 16 children. Rhodes believed that the world was an egg for his omelette; Kruger believed it was flat - "with certain minor excep tions such as high mountains...