Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Rodger of LIFE and I were moving closer toward the harbor when the whole area lighted to a white blinding intensity," Lang cabled. "Then a great weight hit me and I found myself flat on the pavement. I saw a huge rolling mass of flame a thousand feet in the air: a tanker had blown up 300 yards from us. Tied up just before us was another tanker; it could blow up any moment. 'Let's get out of here!' I shouted, and we climbed to the top of a nearby building and looked over...
...rest of the band is made up of Johnny Windhurst, the sensational 17-year-old cornetist from New York who has moved to South Weymouth after a brief visit to Boston earlier this winter (an example of how a sincere mutual interest can draw people together in nothing flat), Evan Schwarz on piano, and George Ohlson on drums...
...trick uses the standard platter-like German Teller mine. The thick disc, with almost 12 lb. of TNT, is buried extra deep in roads which rut quickly. The first few trucks roll over without disturbing the round, flat trigger called "the spider." When the rut deepens, usually after the road is considered safe, the next truck sets off the mine...
According to one description, the launchers are arranged like a flat bank of ten organ pipes at the bow of a small naval landing craft. The crew takes shelter in the bottom of the craft to avoid the backlash of flame from the rockets. The firing is directed from a steel, asbestos-lined turret in the stern. Navy officers conceded that the rockets had proved of value, but discouraged over-sensational treatment of the weapon, pointing out that it could only supplement the heavy-artillery barrage before a landing...
Tractor War. These flat statements from two working generals, who have seen the tractor fight the war all over the world, underlined one of the most pressing of Army production problems last week. When another Army big shot recently cabled "I've got to have 1,300 crawler tractors," the Army had to rob warehouses of badly needed agricultural units, had to beggar other essential construction programs, and even divert equipment from Lend-Lease commitments.* For-in some areas, at least-World War II has turned into a tractor...