Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt is "eight or nine pounds under his best weight [186-188 Ibs.]. He took off this weight in the spring. He was getting a little too heavy and we had him reduce. . . ." Now, proud of his flat stomach, the President doesn't want to get that bulge back. "Frankly, I wish he'd put on a few pounds. . . . Ever hear of a man who recovered his flat tummy and got proud...
...dreary, flat battleground, covered with scrub, relieved by occasional stands of trees around farm buildings, was raked by fire from end to end. Shattered trees, shattered buildings and the shattered corpses of Germans lay before the Canadians. At one time, part of the bridgehead across the 100-foot canal was only ten yards deep. Gradually, units from western Canada pushed forward, wet and bedraggled, until they had carved out an area more than five miles by three...
...each other: "As soon as the European war ends, Eastern business will reconvert. But the West will have to go right on turning out ships and planes. By the time the Jap war is over, the East will have grabbed all our postwar markets-and we'll be flat on our backs...
...Gothic Line at its Adriatic end. There in heavy rain they had taken Rimini, where modern Italians bathed on hot summer days. Now it was a dismal memory of a town; (still erect were the gallows where partisans were hanged the week-before), opening the way into the flat plains behind the Gothic Line...
Mozart: Quartet in E Flat Major (K. 428) (Busch Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides). A slightly heavy but well-tooled performance of a topflight Mozart item. Recording: excellent...