Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fantrymen of the 37th Division, making ten to 14 miles a day. Commented the 37th's Major General Robert S. Beightler, who was later nicked lightly on the brow by a Jap shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala without a Jap soldier in sight...
Some other major medical "errors": examination of children's ears with otoscopes, also surgical puncturing of their eardrums (responsible for many ear infections), mineral oil nose drops (they may cause pneumonia), premature attempts at straightening teeth. Doctors, says Dr. Bakwin, are prone to diagnose flat feet, large tonsils, malocclusion, heart murmur and poor posture as serious ailments when they are only normal variations that would be better let alone...
...Evangelism had proposed a fiveyear, $800,000-a-year publicity program "to help [convert] Eng land to the Christian faith." It was hardly news to most of them that England - or any other "Christian" country - stood in need of conversion. But, coming from the staid Church of England, the flat statement was a bombshell...
...have far fewer loose (saturated) ends than natural rubber; hence it has better resistance to chemicals, sunlight and oxygen. When torn, butyl clings together so that when a tenpenny nail was driven into a tube that had run 35,000 miles, the tube stood up for miles without going flat...
...last week, the smile that helped make Ott everybody's ballplayer was being strained to the limit. After racing to the longest lead of any big league team in a quarter century (25 wins against seven defeats), his Giants fell flat on their faces. They lost 21 out of 29 games (including a doubleheader with the hopeless Phillies), crashed from first to fifth place in eight days. The astounding Brooklyn Dodgers, who had once been doped as pitiful or worse, had taken a three-and-a-half-game lead-with the Cardinals, Pirates, Giants, Cubs and Braves...