Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory in Estonia-a victory in sight, but yet to be won-would enable the Russians to: 1) roll back the entire German Baltic Front across the flat, creek-laced terrain of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; 2) outflank the German front in White Russia; 3) raid Germany's supply routes across the Baltic, depriving the German munitions industry of Swedish ore and virtually isolating Finland...
...said, "but now it is too damn dangerous. In my house I could listen to the radio fairly safely, but then came the big raid of July 27. Nothing was left of my house but matchwood, so my wife and I had to move into a one-room flat where it is dangerous to listen to the radio...
...reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have no natural protection, but how well they are fortified was indicated at Tarawa...
George Bernard Shaw denied that famed British Cartoonist David Low's cartoons of G.B.S. were convincing. Said Shaw: "One day when I went into a friend's flat I saw a caricature of me that seemed to be good-cruel, of course, but still what a caricature should be. Then . .. I saw it was a mirror...
...Children with infantile paralysis are usually fine and big, but not so fully developed as healthy ones. The broad, flat nose bridge, which the doctors noticed as indicating a disposition toward the disease, is a carry-over from fetal life-a mature nose has a high bridge. Another feature frequently found in paralysis cases: long eyelashes...