Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presumption of the Atlantic Charter was that its basic principles applied to all -victor & vanquished alike. . . . But [Mr. Churchill] made the flat statement that the Atlantic Charter does not apply in any sense to the enemy. 'Unconditional surrender' means we end the war, he explained, with no promises of any kind...
...shillelagh rap from little Eire (pop. 3,000,000) gave the U.S. one more foreign-policy headache last week. To President Roosevelt's polite request that neutral Eire kick its German and Japanese diplomats out of their grandstand seats for the invasion, President Eamon de Valera returned a flat "No" (see p. 36). Would the U.S. now get tough as it had with neutral Spain, and join Britain in economic sanctions? Or would the President and the State Department, unable to prove a single case of Axis espionage in Eire, be content with having put themselves on record...
Another went into a funny flat loop with a full bomb load. Chutes came popping out just as one wing cracked...
Lillian Smith's paternal ancestors were hard-working plantation pioneers in the flat, baking, featureless country of Ware County, Ga. Her father made a fortune in timber and turpentine, lost it at the end of World War I, at a moment when he was fighting the unions and the war's end had tied up business in naval stores. One of eight children, Lillian Smith studied in Piedmont College, Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University. In 1922 she went to China (where her brother-in-law was American head of the Y.M.C.A.), taught Methodist hymns to Chinese...
United Nations citizens could still recall the flat predictions of two good U.S. fighting men, Admiral Ernest King and General Dwight Eisenhower, that Germany would be finished off this year. But last week Winston Churchill told Commons he could make no such promise. In Washington, Franklin Roosevelt said amen...