Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know we cannot win the war. What with your sickening, gottverdammtes advantage in numbers of men and weight of arms, we may not be able to put up much resistance on the flat plains of northern Germany. But you can plainly see the bitter, skillful, grinding fight which we are putting up in Italy, where the terrain favors us. What will you do when you have driven us into our last great bastion, anchored on the high Alps from Salzburg to Lombardy? The terrain will then favor us on all sides, and we will make any attackers pay a hideous...
...Yanks lengthened the bridgehead to the north and seized rail yards at Königswinter, after bypassing a summit called the Drachenfels ("Dragon's Rock"), where the legendary Siegfried slew the dragon Fafnir. They were coming out of the deep-gashed hills toward the flat plain that leads straight to the Ruhr...
Exactly how many Zombies were already in action was not yet known. But it was known that some were attached to the Algonquin Regiment. And when the Regiment was given the job of taking the German village of Veen, the Zombies got their chance. They had to advance over flat farmland, then subdue the German defenders house by house, barn by barn, pigsty by pigsty. It took three days, and one reporter called the battle "a double-header dose of hell." Even after the village was taken, it had to be combed for mines, for it was nastily booby-trapped...
Near Gatlinburg, Tenn., a C-47 cargo plane took off, climbed above the wild, wooded slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains. Flying low, at elevations between 1,500 and 5,000 feet, the plane reeled out 16 miles of continuous telephone wire in six and two-thirds minutes flat, linking Gatlinburg and Smokemont...
...clergymen piously coming & going-there was Father Raymond Norman, and Father Lyman Appleby, and Archbishop William F. Tyarks, a bony and ancient cleric. They all belonged to something called the American Catholic Orthodox Church. Everybody knew they Were not Roman Catholics-Mrs. Fitzgerald, who lived in a flat over the Mission, reported that they ate baloney last Ash Wednesday. But nobody minded that...